Dr. Luca Scorrano Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Italy

Luca Scorrano is Group Leader at the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine in Padova and Assistant Telethon Scientist of the Dulbecco-Telethon Institute. After obtaining his MD/PhD in Padova in 2000 he moved to Boston to join the laboratory of Stan Korsmeyer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, where... read morehe stayed until 2003. In 2002 he discovered the so-called cristae remodeling pathway of apoptosis. His laboratory explores the mechanisms and consequences of mitochondrial shape changes during life and death of a cell.