Biography

Carlo Ventura received his MD, the Ph.D. in Biochemistry and the Specialization in Cardiology from the University of Bologna, Italy. He spent several years at the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Sciences of the N.I.H. – N.I.A. in Baltimore, MD, USA. He is Full Professor of Molecular Biology at the School of Medicine of the University of Bologna, Italy, and Director of:
- The National Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Stem Cell Engineering, of the National Institute of Biostructures and Biosystems (NIBB/INBB: www.inbb.it)) - Eldor Lab, at the Innovation Accelerators, CNR, Bologna, Italy.
- GUNA ATTRE (Advanced Therapies and Tissue REgeneration), at the Innovation Accelerators, CNR, Bologna, Italy.
He is Chief of the Division of Bologna of the National Institute of Biostructures and Biosystems (NIBB), including the NIBB Research Units of Firenze, Pisa, and Siena, Italy.
He is Co-Founder and CSO of:
- Elpis Eremo (https://www.elpiseremo.com)
- OmGeneum (https://www.omgeneum.com)
In 2011, he founded VID art|science (NIBB branch), an International Laboratory of Arts and Sciences, working to help usher in a new culture of creativity committed to innovations and the development of novel paradigms.
He devoted his studies to the molecular dissection of myocardial cell growth and differentiation, discovering nuclear endorphin receptors and signaling responsible for stem cell cardiogenesis. He developed new moelcules with differentiating and paracrine logics for cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine. He discovered the ability of “extremely low frequency magnetic fileds” and radioelectric fields to enhance stem cell pluripotency, and afford direct reprogramming of human dermal skin fibroblasts to myocardial, neuronal and skeletal muscle lineages. He found that cells produce acoustic and subsonic vibrational signatures of their health and differentiating potential (“Sonocytology”). These findings paved the way to the use of physical energy in stem cell Science.