Research on rare genetic cardiomyopathies
The Department of Special Pathology Anatomy and the Department of Thoracic and Vascular Cardiological Sciences, University of Padua , Italy. with Resp. Scientific Prof. Gaetano Thiene Former Director of the Complex Operative Unit Cardiovascular Pathology, Padua Hospital Company is the international reference center for research on rare genetic cardiomyopathies and has the following research orientations:
The Human Molecular Genetics Laboratory of the Department of Biology, University of Padua, with Resp. Scientific Prof. Alessandra Rampazzo, which has been involved in the molecular genetic studies of inherited cardiomyopathies for more than 25 years, has the following research orientations:
Each year the center follows more than 1,800 patients (including probands and family members) with arrhythmic cardiomyopathies, both structural and non-structural, and is in close collaboration with internationally recognized research centers such as:
Barry Maron, Heart Center Minneapolis, MN
Martin Maron, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
Artur Wilde-Connie Bezzina-Peter van Tintelen AMC, Amsterdam, NL
Jeffrey Saffitz-Angeliki Asimaki, Boston, MA; Frank Marcus, Tucson, Arizona
Sanjay Sharma, Elija Behr, St George Hospital-CRY, London, UK