Laura Russo

Laura Russo is Associate Professor at University of Milano-Bicocca and Research Affiliate at the Hospital San Gerardo dei Tintori. She is also Visiting Faculty at CÚRAM and Adjunct Lecturer at University of Galway. Her research is focused on biomaterials for the development of biological tissues and coating of medical devices translational applications. Her research experience dates to 2010, as a PhD student in the BioOrganic research group of the University of Milano-Bicocca, developing a multidisciplinary project exploiting glycoscience in the field of biomaterials for tissue engineering.

In 2010 LR was also Visiting Researcher at Imperial College of London, studying hybrid bioglass based biomaterials for osteochondral tissue regeneration. From 2013 to 2015, as Post-doctoral Fellow at University of Milano-Bicocca, she was a unit coordinator of a research project on smart biomaterials for organoid cell cultures for cardiac tissue engineering. In October 2016, Laura was awarded an SFI Starting Investigator Research Grant (SIRG) at CÚRAM, University of Galway – where she started her research as Principal Investigator on Glycoconjugates Biomaterials for tissue engineering applications. In March 2017, she secured a faculty position at the University of Milano – Bicocca and maintained the position of visiting faculty at CÚRAM. Laura has been awarded the prestigious Junior Research Award for Organic Chemistry in Life Science of the Italian Chemical Society for her scientific contribution on organic chemistry applied to the life science field.

Laura is Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the startup Biocompatibility Innovation srl and founder of Resyde srl – a start-up company in the field of implantable medical devices.