Cardiologist and Assistant Professor at the University Hospital of Brescia (Italy). PhD degree in Clinical and Experimental Biomedical Sciences. Fellow of European Heart Failure Association (FHFA). Associate Editor of the European Journal of Heart Failure. Committee member of the Pharmacology & Pharmacotherapy Committee of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC Previous research Cardiovascular fellowships at the Brigham and Women`s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

Elena Osto is since April 2023 Chair and Director of the Division of Physiology and Pathophysiology at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. She has been from 2019-2023 Assistant Professor funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation PRIMA-Grant at the University Hospital and University of Zurich. She obtained her MD and PhD degrees at the University of Padova, Italy, where she also became a board-certified cardiologist. Her research focuses on cardio-metabolic research and she is specialized in endothelial metabolism and function in immuno-metabolic disarrangements like obesity, diabetes and aging. Her clinical expertise focuses on advanced non-invasive cardiac imaging and sex-differences in coronary microvascular dysfunction. She is recipient of prestigious awards and member of international professional associations in the field of cardiology and vascular biology such as the European Society of Cardiology, WG atherosclerosis and vascular biology and the European Society for Microcirculation. Total amount of Grant as PI or Co-Applicant > 4’500’000 EUR.