Ana Mesquita

Undergraduate Discipline

Biology

BS, University of Porto (Portugal). MS, University of Porto (Portugal). PhD, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). Postdoctoral research studies, University of Cincinnati and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Recent work focuses on the effects of autophagy in heart disease and stroke. Awarded an American Heart Association postdoctoral grant (2018-2020), Dennis-Shields travel awards (2018 and 2019), and a Future of Science award (2019). Member of the early leadership policy subcommittee at Genetics Society of America (2018-2020) and the council on genomics at American Heart Association (2018-). SLC, 2020-