Fernando Figueroa Elizalde

Títulos o grados académicos

• Especialista en Medicina Interna y Reumatología en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

• Estudios de Postgrado en Inmunología y Reumatología en las Universidades de Rockefeller, California y Montpellier.

• Fellow del American College of Physicians.

• Médico Cirujano, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

• Licenciado en Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Carreras Asociadas

Asignaturas que imparte

  • Medicina Interna.
  • Reumatología.
  • Inmunología Clínica.

Categoría Académica

  • Profesor Titular.

Publicaciones

  • Current status of cell-based therapies for respiratory virus infections: applicability to COVID-19

  • Magic realism: a Latin American paradigm for stem cell research & development?

  • Mitochondrial transfer from MSCs to T cells induces Treg differentiation and restricts inflammatory response

  • Adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stromal cells in patients with chronic kidney disease: A pilot study assessing safety and clinical feasibility

  • Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) for Knee Osteoarthritis: Repeated MSC Dosing Is Superior to a Single MSC Dose and to Hyaluronic Acid in a Controlled Randomized Phase I/II Trial

Proyectos de investigación

  • Center of Interventional Medicine for Precision and Advanced Cellular Therapy (IMPACT)

  • Mitochondrial transfer within the osteoarthritic joint: restoration of the dysfunctional stress-response and metabolic pathway in cartilage in-vitro and in an animal model of disease

  • Mitochondrial transfer from mesenchymal stem cells for osteoarthritis treatment