Prof Nadia Rosenthal
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Professor Nadia Rosenthal has been appointed Scientific Head of EMBL
Australia.
Professor Rosenthal is an acclaimed researcher with exceptional
scientific credentials, including sixteen years working at Harvard
Medical School.
Professor Nadia Rosenthal is the Director of the Australian Regenerative
Medicine Institute (ARMI), the headquarters of EMBL Australia. She also
directs the influential European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Outstation in Monterotondo, Italy, one of five EMBL campuses in Europe.
Her research concentrates on embryonic heart development, ageing
mechanisms and stem cell-driven regeneration of neuromuscular and
cardiac tissue, using the mouse as a model for human response to
disease.
She also serves as scientific director of the Heart Science Centre at
Imperial College London and is currently working with leading heart
transplant surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub on developing new
regenerative ways to treat heart failure.
As Scientific Head of EMBL Australia, Nadia will lead the research
directives of EMBL Australia.
She has already produced the Scientific Plan for EMBL Australia, which
sets out a strategy to create and deliver scientific excellence,
increased collaboration, innovation and services to Australian life
science.
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