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[email protected]) Editorial Office Director Patrizia Verduci Editorial Office Deputy Directors Gianni Lombardi and Mariella Verduci Editorial Office Assistant Valen-na Doria CellR4 – Repair, Replacement, Regenera-on & Reprogramming Official Journal of The Cure Alliance Copyright © 2013 Verduci Interna%onal Miami, Florida, USA Editorial Board Reza Abdi Bruno Gridelli Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA ISMETT, Palermo, Italy Rodolfo Alejandro Joshua M. Hare University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA Julie G. Allickson Karin Hehenberger Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Piero Anversa Jeffrey A. Hubbell Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, CH Anthony Atala Suzanne Ildstad Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA University of Louisville, Louisville, KY Per-Olof Berggren Luca Inverardi Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden University of Miami, Miami FL, USA Federico Bertuzzi Jonathan Lakey University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda, Milan, Italy Robert Langer Tiziana Brevini MIT and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy Livio Luzi F. Charles Brunicardi Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy University of California at Los Angeles, Mario Marazzi Los Angeles, CA, USA Peter Buchwald Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda, Milan, Italy Claudia Montero-Menei University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA University of Angers, Angers, France Richard K.