Emanuela Gussoni, PhD

Muscular dystrophy, Muscle stem cells.

Dr. Gussoni obtained her Ph.D. degree from the University of Milan, Italy. She moved to the United States and did her first postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, where she evaluated expression of dystrophin and donor cell survival in DMD patients that participated in a myoblast transfer clinical trial. She then moved to Boston Children’s Hospital for her second postdoctoral fellowship training, where she studied muscle and bone marrow stem cells and their ability to deliver dystrophin following systemic injection. She established her own laboratory at Boston Children’s Hospital in early 2000 and focused on studying muscle stem cells. Her laboratory has worked on the role of BMP signaling in muscle progenitors; on signals that regulate the incorporation of muscle cells into myofibers and on the function of tetraspanins in muscle stem cell quiescence/activation. The broad translational goal of her laboratory is to optimize cell-based therapy for muscular dystrophy. Dr. Gussoni is presently an Associate Professor at Harvard University. She has been a permanent member of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (USA) Scientific Advisory Committee from 2006-2017. In 2017 she co-founded the Roya Kabuki Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she has been serving as Co-Director since inception.

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