Medical Student
Queen's University
Queen's University, Canada
Joseph Bellissimo is a 3rd year medical student at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. His primary supervisor is Dr. John Coles, a congenital cardiac surgeon at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, where he is a member of the Coles Lab research team. His work is centered on the development of novel Lipid Nanoparticles (LNP) and mRNA therapeutics for applications in cardiac and hepatic repair, primarily in post-Fontan surgery patients. He has a keen research interest in the use of artifical intelligence and computational tools to design precision medicines for patients, with a special focus on those with congenital heart disease.