We sincerely welcome Dr. Antonietta Franco from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States, to join the Editorial Board of Advances in Cells. She joined the Dorn laboratory as a transfer graduate student from the University of Naples ~6 years ago, successfully defending her PhD in May 2016 and staying on for post-doctoral training. In July, 2019 she was appointed to the Wash U Research Faculty as she works toward research independence. In collaboration with other DornLab and Wash U collaborators, she has been the lead or co-lead scientist on projects describing allosteric mitofusin activation (Nature 2016), first-in-class small molecule mitofusin activators (Science 2018), and organ-specific pathological effects of different natural human MFN2 mutations using cell and genetic mouse models (eLife 2020 and submitted). Her principal effort now is functionally dissecting the consequences of disrupted mitofusin-mediated fusion vs mitophagy in cardiomyopathy. We appreciate Dr. Antonietta Franco for her participation and support.
March 21, 2024