Francesco Costa
Chief Medical Officer
francesco.costa@novaloop.ch
Francesco has been passionate about technology since he was about eight years old, when he started taking apart, configuring and programming the first computers at home. That curiosity stayed with him when he chose medicine.
He studied Medicine and Surgery at the University of Bologna, where he worked as a researcher in the Research, Innovation & Technology Lab of the IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli (Prof. Baldini). There he developed patented devices for learning microsurgery, including Microsurgery Arena, a trainer for microsurgeons that is now distributed and used worldwide. He also contributed to a new photoactivated therapy for soft tissue sarcomas, a topic he pursued during a research stay at Mie University Hospital in Tsu, Japan (Prof. Kusuzaki).
He then gained five years of clinical experience in hand surgery and plastic surgery in Switzerland, England and India, including at the University Hospital Zurich (USZ) and as a Hand Surgery Fellow at Ganga Hospital (Prof. Raja Sabapathy, Dr. Hari Venkatramani), an internationally renowned centre for hand surgery.
After a stay at MIT, he decided to devote himself to healthcare innovation as well. Alongside his clinical work, he developed artificial intelligence applications and telemedicine solutions such as Medrooms.ch, a teleconsultation platform designed from the ground up to protect patient data. He later turned his attention to the security of large language models (LLMs) in medicine, an area he now researches in collaboration with TU Dresden in Germany. In 2026 he completed the MAS in Management, Technology and Economics (MTEC) at ETH Zurich.
In 2026 Francesco joined Novaloop as Chief Medical Officer, bringing his clinical and technological experience to healthcare projects. He is driven by curiosity and a passion for cross-disciplinary innovation: solutions that work in everyday practice, technology understood in depth, and systems tested the way an attacker would test them.