Rate My Professor Marianna Fontana

Professor Fontana obtained her medical degree and qualifications as a cardiologist from the University of Pisa. Her research specializations encompass amyloidosis, particularly cardiac amyloidosis, with special interests in delivering efficient care through new imaging technologies and drugs. She has received the BHF Intermediate Research Fellowship in 2018, the Michael Davies Early Career Award in 2021, and the BHF Fellow of the Year Award in 2022. Key publications include "Nonbiopsy diagnosis of cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis" (2016), "CRISPR-Cas9 in vivo gene editing for transthyretin amyloidosis" (2021), "Diagnosis and treatment of cardiac amyloidosis: a position statement of the ESC Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases" (2021), "ASNC/AHA/ASE/EANM/HFSA/ISA/SCMR/SNMMI expert consensus recommendations for multimodality imaging in cardiac amyloidosis" (2021), and "A new staging system for cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis" (2018). Her scholarly impact is evidenced by over 37,000 citations on Google Scholar.