Professor Arbustini is graduated in Medicine and specialized in Cardiology, Pathologic Anatomy and Genetics. She is Director of the Centre for Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases and of the Transplant Research Area of the IRCCS Foundation, University Hospital, Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia, Italy. Her research activity includes: clinical and molecular genetics of cardiovascular diseases (heritable cardiomyopathies and aneurysmal connective tissue) and non-cardiovascular syndromic and non-syndromic disorders (inherited lung diseases, familial cancer); pharmacogenetics; gene expression; pathology of cardiovascular diseases and

transplanted thoracic organs.