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Prof Enzo Porrello

Prof Enzo Porrello

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Role Theme Director - Stem Cell Biology
Research area Stem Cell Medicine

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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

  • Sim, CB, Phipson, B, Ziemann, M, Rafehi, H, Mills, RJ, Watt, KI, Abu-Bonsrah, KD, Kalathur, RKR, Voges, HK, Dinh, DT, et al. Sex-Specific Control of Human Heart Maturation by the Progesterone Receptor. Circulation 143(16) : 1614 -1628 2021
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  • Mills, RJ, Parker, BL, Quaife-Ryan, GA, Voges, HK, Needham, EJ, Bornot, A, Ding, M, Andersson, H, Polla, M, Elliott, DA, et al. Drug Screening in Human PSC-Cardiac Organoids Identifies Pro-proliferative Compounds Acting via the Mevalonate Pathway. Cell Stem Cell 24(6) : 895 -907.e6 2019
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  • Mills, RJ, Titmarsh, DM, Koenig, X, Parker, BL, Ryall, JG, Quaife-Ryan, GA, Voges, HK, Hodson, MP, Ferguson, C, Drowley, L, et al. Functional screening in human cardiac organoids reveals a metabolic mechanism for cardiomyocyte cell cycle arrest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114(40) : e8372 -e8381 2017
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  • Quaife-Ryan, GA, Sim, CB, Ziemann, M, Kaspi, A, Rafehi, H, Ramialison, M, El-Osta, A, Hudson, JE, Porrello, ER. Multicellular Transcriptional Analysis of Mammalian Heart Regeneration. Circulation 136(12) : 1123 -1139 2017
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  • Porrello, ER, Mahmoud, AI, Simpson, E, Hill, JA, Richardson, JA, Olson, EN, Sadek, HA. Transient Regenerative Potential of the Neonatal Mouse Heart. Science 331(6020) : 1078 -1080 2011
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