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Role Theme Director - Stem Cell Biology
Research area Stem cell biology

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Available for student supervision
Professor Porrello is the Theme Director of Stem Cell Biology and Head of the Heart Regeneration Group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He also directs the Melbourne Node of the recently established Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW) and he is the founding Co-Director of the Melbourne Centre for Cardiovascular Genomics and Regenerative Medicine (CardioRegen). Prof Porrello’s research focuses on the development of regenerative therapies for children and adults with heart failure. Over the course of his career, he has made important contributions to our understanding of mammalian heart regeneration and has pioneered the development of human organoids for drug discovery. Prof Porrello is a co-founder of Dynomics, a biotechnology company focused on the development of new heart failure treatments using organoid technologies.

After completing his PhD in Physiology at The University of Melbourne, Prof Porrello was awarded an NHMRC/NHF C.J. Martin Fellowship to undertake postdoctoral training in Prof Eric Olson's laboratory at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, USA. Upon returning to Australia in 2012, Prof Porrello established the Cardiac Regeneration Laboratory at The University of Queensland, which he co-headed together with Dr James Hudson from 2013-2017.
Professor Porrello is the Theme Director of Stem Cell Biology and Head of the Heart Regeneration Group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He also directs the Melbourne Node of the recently established Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for...
Professor Porrello is the Theme Director of Stem Cell Biology and Head of the Heart Regeneration Group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He also directs the Melbourne Node of the recently established Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW) and he is the founding Co-Director of the Melbourne Centre for Cardiovascular Genomics and Regenerative Medicine (CardioRegen). Prof Porrello’s research focuses on the development of regenerative therapies for children and adults with heart failure. Over the course of his career, he has made important contributions to our understanding of mammalian heart regeneration and has pioneered the development of human organoids for drug discovery. Prof Porrello is a co-founder of Dynomics, a biotechnology company focused on the development of new heart failure treatments using organoid technologies.

After completing his PhD in Physiology at The University of Melbourne, Prof Porrello was awarded an NHMRC/NHF C.J. Martin Fellowship to undertake postdoctoral training in Prof Eric Olson's laboratory at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, USA. Upon returning to Australia in 2012, Prof Porrello established the Cardiac Regeneration Laboratory at The University of Queensland, which he co-headed together with Dr James Hudson from 2013-2017.

Top Publications

  • Waddell, H, Wells, S, Sim, C, Porrello, E, Delbridge, L, Bell, J. Microelectrode Array Screening of Different Cardiomyocyte Cultures Reveals Inherent Disparities in Cardiac Cell Electrophysiology. Heart Lung and Circulation 28: s147 2019
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  • . This abstract has been withdrawn. Heart Lung and Circulation 28: s180 2019
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  • Mahmoud, AI, Porrello, ER. Upsizing Neonatal Heart Regeneration. Circulation 138(24) : 2817 -2819 2018
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  • Dang, LT, Tondl, M, Chiu, MHH, Revote, J, Paten, B, Tano, V, Tokolyi, A, Besse, F, Quaife-Ryan, G, Cumming, H, et al. TrawlerWeb: an online de novo motif discovery tool for next-generation sequencing datasets. BMC Genomics 19(1) : 238 2018
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  • Curl, CL, Danes, VR, Bell, JR, Raaijmakers, AJA, Ip, WTK, Chandramouli, C, Harding, TW, Porrello, ER, Erickson, JR, Charchar, FJ, et al. Cardiomyocyte Functional Etiology in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction Is Distinctive—A New Preclinical Model. Journal of the American Heart Association 7(11) : e007451 2018
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