Luca Musante, PhD
Luca, received his BS in Biological Sciences at the University of Genova, Italy. He then received a MS in Biochemistry and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Pavia and finally he received his Doctorate in Experimental Medicine at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Musante has authored 69 peer-reviewed publications (NCBI) and presented his research at national and international conferences. He started to study urinary Extracellular Vesicles (uEVs) in diabetes back in 2009, in the laboratory directed by Dr. Harry Holthöfer at Dublin City University, Ireland. He developed and implemented a novel method — Hydrostatic Filtration Dialysis (HFD) — to optimize urinary extracellular vesicle recovery during the centrifugation step to overcome the biological variability associated with this biofluid, maximizing recovery of representative vesicle populations without requiring biobanking large volumes of urine.