Saima Imran is a cell and molecular biologist at the University of Padova. She completed her doctorate in the biological chemistry field at the University of Karachi, Pakistan in 2008. Her work is published in peer-reviewed articles (> 27). She worked as a researcher at Palacky University (Czech Republic) during 2009–2011 and as a postdoctoral fellow (2011–2012) for the Carl Tryggers’ Scholarship at Uppsala University (Sweden). Dr. Imran was selected as a senior lecturer for the mobility grant at Palacky University (Czech Republic) during 2013–2015 for stem-cell-based research in the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics. She also visited at the Institute of Child Health, University College London to gain research experience in human embryonic stem cell (hESC) and hiPSC cell differentiation. During 2016–2018, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy. Currently, she is working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Padova Medical School, Dept. of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Sciences and Public Health and Lifelab project under the supervision of Prof. Gino Gerosa. Her current interests are to modulate and decellularize the scaffold of the whole porcine heart and to apply hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes to recellularize the cardiac ECM.