Marcello Rubino is a phD, a cellular and molecular biologist specialized in macrophages, cardiac fibroblasts, transcription and epigenetics. His current research, is focused on two main aims : 1) the study of epigenetic mechanisms regulating cardiac fibrosis , using high-throughput screening assays with epigenetic compounds; 2) immuno phenothiting and correlation between macrophages and fibrosis in human cardiac diseases, performing spatial transcriptomics and single cells RNA sequencing in failing cardiac tissues.

He did his phD in epigenetics and tumors under prof. Cecilia Garlanda. Then moved to the cardiovascular field with prof. Gianluigi Condorelli. He spent 4 years in Colorado, as postdoc of prof Thymothy Mckinsey, trough an AHA fellowship in epigenetics and fibrosis. Lastly, he get back at Humanitas with the HIPPO fellowship, to start his own line of research. Rubino has worked and is still working in coordination with bioinformaticians, lab technicians, students and other postdocs. He believes that collaboration and network are an important way to polish and improve his knowledge and skills every day.