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Sebastiano Sciarretta
All in the Family
Susan Ince

"After a rigorous secondary education focused on ancient Greek, Latin, and classical literature, Sciarretta obtained his medical degree, cardiology training, and a PhD in experimental medicine at the Sapienza University of Rome. While at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School as a post doc and assistant professor, he helped clarify the molecular mechanisms regulating autophagy during myocardial ischemia and dissected the role of autophagy and mTOR (mechanistic target of rapamycin) complexes in the regulation of the cardiac adaptation to stress.1–4"

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.119.314911