LIBERO VITIELLO, Curriculum Vitae Present address: Department of Biology University of Padova e-mail: libero.vitiello@unipd.it EDUCATION Jul. 1988: Degree in Biological Sciences, University of Padova, final evaluation: Summa cum Laude. Title of the thesis: "Deletion mutations of the DMD-BMD locus: screening by molecular intragenic probes”. Nov. 1989 to Sept. 1993: Ph.D. student in the “Genetic Sciences” joint program between University of Ferrara and University of Padova. Title of the thesis: "Mutation analysis in coding and regulative sequences of the human dystrophin gene”. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES Nov. 1993 to Dec. 1996: Post-Doctoral fellow in Dr. Ron Worton laboratory at the Department of Genetics of the Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto), working on the project "Liposome-mediated gene therapy of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy". Collaboration, involving frequent visits, with the Liposome Research Unit of the University of British Columbia and with INEX Pharmaceuticals Inc., Vancouver. Dec. 1996 to Sept 1998: Researcher funded by Telethon Italia, at the Center for Innovative Biotechnologies of the University of Padua. Sept 1998 to Aug. 2020: Researcher and Assistant Professor at the University of Padova, working at the Department of Biology. Aug 2013 to Sept 2014: Visiting Scientist at the Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering of the University of Toronto. Sept. 2020 to present: Associate Professore at Department of Biology, university of Padova CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Use of monoamine oxidases inhibitors and of anti oxidant molecules as therapeutic agents in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Use of in vivo murine models to study the pathogenic mechanisms of causative mutations in inherited Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy. Use of 3D muscle construct for the correction of congenital ano-rectal malformations.