Francesca Taraballi, PhD (she/her/hers)

Director Center For Musculoskeletal Regeneration
Houston Methodist Research Institute
houston, Texas, United States

Dr. Taraballi earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences and the first M.S. in Biochemistry at University of Milan – Bicocca, Italy. After another M.S. in Structural Biochemistry, she earned her Ph.D. in Nanostructures and Nanotechnologies from a joint program of the Materials Science Department of University of Milan – Bicocca with the Lawrence National Berkeley Laboratory (LBNL) in 2009.
Dr. Taraballi is currently is the Director of the Center for Musculoskeletal Regeneration at Houston Methodist Research Institute affiliated to the Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital. She is a faculty member at the Center for RNA Therapeutics and a secondary affiliation at the Department of Nanomedicine at HMRI. Dr. Taraballi’s research is focused on the development of translational biomaterials, both injectable and implantable, to target the immune system toward tissue restoration.

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Presentation(s):

• Tech Session II: Gene Delivery and Gene Editing I

  Tuesday, July 15, 2025
  2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT