Michele De Luca
The Power List 2018 – Masters of the Bench
Michele de Luca
Director, center for Regenerative Medicine “Stefano Ferrari”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Michele is internationally recognized as a leading scientist in epithelial stem cell biology, with a focus on its clinical application in regenerative medicine. He played a pivotal role in developing epithelial stem cell-mediated cell therapy, and in demonstrating the feasibility of genetically corrected stem cell-mediated ex vivo gene therapy for epidermolysis bullosa.