Regina Coeli dos Santos Goldenberg, PhD is an Associate Professor and head of the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Cardiology in the Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dr. Goldenberg has over twenty years of research and academic experience and has played key roles in a number of projects, including studies of adult, embryonic, and induced pluripotent stem cells in vitro and in preclincal models of cardiac and liver disorders. She also participates in several clinical trials using bone marrow-derived mononuclear cell infusion in patients presenting with chagasic cardiomyopathy, neurological disorders, liver diseases, and lung injury. She is currently a board member of the Brazilian Society for Cell Therapy.
Antonio Carlos Campos de Carvalho, MD, PhD, is Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Visiting Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York), and Research Director at the National Cardiology Institute (Rio de Janeiro). Prof. Campos de Carvalho has authored more than 130 papers and 16 book chapters. Since 2000 he has been working with stem cells and cell therapies, with a special focus on cardiovascular diseases. He heads the Brazilian Cell Therapy Network and coordinates the MiHeart Study, a multicenter, randomized, and placebo-controlled double-blind clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of bone marrow-derived cells in cardiopathies in Brazil. He is on the Board of the International Union of Physiological Sciences and is a member and Director of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS).