Jacopo Fontana

Jacopo M. Fontana is a Clinical Trial Project Coordinator at Karolinska Institutet, where he leads the TRAVAGA study investigating transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. He has over ten years of experience in biomedical research, clinical trial management, and scientific communication, with a background spanning physiology, neuroscience, immunology, and metabolic diseases.

Dr. Fontana has held research and coordination roles at Karolinska Institutet, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), and Istituto Auxologico Italiano, contributing to projects on obesity, neuroinflammation, immuno-oncology, renal physiology, and auditory system biology.

• Clinical trial design and coordination in rheumatology, metabolic diseases, and neurological disorders

• Neuromodulation therapies, with a focus on vagus nerve stimulation in inflammatory diseases

• Mechanisms of obesity, adipose tissue physiology, and whole-body cryostimulation (WBC) interventions

• Cross-talk between metabolic dysfunction, immune regulation, and neurodegeneration

• Circadian biology, inflammation, and auditory system physiology

• Translational research bridging preclinical models with clinical applications