Tiziano Tallone, born in Lugano (Switzerland) in 1965, grew up and completed primary and secondary school education in Bellinzona (Switzerland). In 1993 he obtained a degree in molecular biology from the University of Zurich. Between 1994 and 1998, he worked at the Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie (Freiburg i. Br., Germany) as an external doctoral candidate. He obtained the Ph.D. from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in the summer of 1998. Between 1998 and 2001, he spent a postdoctoral period at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (Sweden). Back in Switzerland in the summer of 2001, he was "Assistant-Docteur de Recherche" at the Institute of Biochemistry of the University of Fribourg until 2004, after which he was "Maître Assistant" until summer 2005. He then moved to Zurich, where he worked until 2008 at the company PolyGene Transgenetics AG. From the summer of 2008 until the end of 2012, Dr. Tallone held in Lugano the position of Senior Scientist and Person in Charge of the Research, first for the Swiss Stem Cell Bank (SSCB) and later for SCR Stem Cells Research. Since 2013 he works Senior Scientist at the Swiss Institute for Regenerative Medicine (SIRM) in Taverne (Switzerland), which is an offspring of Cardiocentro Ticino (CCT) and is financially supported by the Foundation for Cardiological Research and Education (FCRE).