ISAKOS 2025 Congress Faculty

Giuseppe Filardo, MD, PhD, MBA, Prof.

EOC, USI
Lugano SWITZERLAND

Prof. Giuseppe Filardo earned his Degree in Medicine and Surgery in 2004 at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Italy, and the specialization in Orthopaedics and Traumatology at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute (Bologna, Italy) in 2009. He was a research fellow at Rush Cartilage Restoration Center in Chicago (IL), USA, and obtained his PhD in “cartilage regenerative treatments” at the Bologna University, Italy, in 2014. He completed an Executive MBA at the Bologna Business School in 2022. He is Past President of the Cartilage and Regenerative Medicine Committee and Executive Board member of the Italian society SIAGASCOT, Member of the Orthobiologic Initiative of the European society ESSKA, Executive Board member of the International society ICRS, member of the Editorial Boards of AJSM, KSSTA, JEO, and OJSM journals, and reviewer for the Cartilage journal. Winner of several research awards and participant to several national and international research projects on orthopaedic biotechnologies, his main clinical and translational research activities are currently mainly performed at the Ospedale Regionale di Lugano, Switzerland. Professor at the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences of USI - Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland. Author of 500 publications; Scopus H index: 72; Google Scholar H index: 89. Author and editor of the book "Orthobiologics: Injectable Therapies for the Musculoskeletal System", ISAKOS-ICRS-Springer, 2022. His main interests are regenerative medicine (biomaterials, mesenchymal stem/stromal cells and platelet growth factors) and new treatments for musculoskeletal tissues, in particular cartilage, meniscus, and tendon lesions.