**Gaetano Santulli**

A physician-scientist, Prof. Dr. Gaetano Santulli, MD, PhD completed his postdoctoral training at Columbia University Medical Center, supported by an American Heart Association (AHA) fellowship and a Scientist Development Grant. His expertise comprises both clinical and basic research topics, including hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, arrhythmias, and vascular disorders. He published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers on topics spanning from calcium to microRNA and mitochondrial pathophysiology.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of *Frontiers in Cardiovascular Endocrinology* and serves on the editorial boards of several medical journals, including *European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, Cardiovascular Diabetology, Hypertension, BMC Medicine, Cardiovascular Research, Atherosclerosis, ESC Heart Failure, Nutrients, Molecular Medicine, European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Cell Signalling, Non-coding RNA, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, Scientific Reports*, and *PLoS One*. His NIH-funded laboratory is currently studying the molecular mechanisms linking alterations in intracellular calcium fluxes to cardiometabollic disease.
