Translational Mobility Medicine and Ugo Carraro: A Life of Significant Scientific Contributions Reviewed in Celebration

Abstract

Prof. Ugo Carraro will reach 80 years of age next 23 February 2023, and we wish to celebrate him and his work by reviewing his lifetime of scientific achievements. Prof. Carraro, currently is a Senior Scholar with the University of Padova, Italy, where, as a tenured faculty member, he founded the _Interdepartmental Research Center of Myology (CIR-MYO)_. Prof. Carraro is a pioneer in skeletal muscle research and a world-class expert in structural and molecular investigations of skeletal muscle biology and physiopathology. He is an expert in applied bidimensional gel electrophoresis for myosin light chains and was the first to separate mammalian muscle myosin heavy chain isoforms by SDS-gel electrophoresis, particularly the embryonic isoform. He has demonstrated the ability of long-term denervated muscle to survive denervation by myofiber regeneration, as well as the beneficial impacts of an athletic lifestyle on muscle reinnervation. He has utilized his expertise in translational myology by working to develop and validate rehabilitative treatments of denervated and ageing skeletal muscle. He has authored more than 160 PubMed listed papers and numerous scholarly books. He founded and, currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of, the EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF TRANSLATIONAL MYOLOGY AND MOBILITY MEDICINE. He has organized more than 40 Padua Muscle Days Meetings and continues to do this, encouraging students and young scientists to participate. As his last dream, he is currently validating the use of non-invasive analyses on saliva, a promising approach that will allow increased frequency sampling to analyze critical systemic factors (e.g., myokines) during the transient effects of training and rehabilitation.