Wound Healing, Fibrosis, and the Myofibroblast

Giulio Gabbiani has obtained an MD degree at the University of Pavia (Italy) and a PhD degree at the University of Montreal (Canada). He has been Research Associate at the Department of Pathology of Harvard Medical School, Professor at the Department of Pathology and Immunology of the University of Geneva (Switzerland), where he is now Emeritus Professor. He has been Secretary and President of the European Cytoskeleton Forum, Secretary and Chairman of the European Vascular Biology Association, Secretary of the European Tissue Repair Society. He has received several distinctions including a degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and from the University of Limoges (France). Giulio Gabbiani's interests span from the biology of the myofibroblast (which he discovered in 1971), to mechanisms of fibrosis development and to the biology of arterial smooth muscle cell including its involvement in atherosclerosis.