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Email: sadoshju@njms.rutgers.edu

Dr. Sadoshima graduated from Kyushu University School of Medicine in Fukuoka, Japan, and received his MD/PhD in 1990. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. His research focuses on autophagy, the Hippo pathway, and redox-sensitive signaling mechanisms. He received first prize for the AHA’s Katz Basic Science Research Prize (1995); first prize for the AHA Cardiovascular Research Prize (2001); the ISHR Janice Pfeffer Distinguished Lecture Award (2010); the AHA Thomas Smith Memorial Lecture Award (2014); the BCVS Distinguished Investigator Award (2017); the AHA Merit Award (2020). He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation. He is an associate editors of Autophagy and 2 other journals, and an editorial board member of Journal of Clinical Investigation. He is a North American coordinator of the Leducq Transatlantic Network focusing on autophagy in the heart.  He dedicates himself to the training of young scientists, and his trainees have received numerous awards, including the Katz Basic Research Prize awards (2008, 2013 and 2017) and Melvin L Marcus Young Investigator awards (2003 and 2013) from the AHA.

Biography:
MD, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan  -1983
PhD, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan  -1989
Postdoctoral Fellow, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA  1990 -1994
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI  1994 -1998
Allegheny University of the Health and Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA  1998 - 2000
Associate Professor, UMDNJ-NJ Medical School, Newark, NJ  2000 - 2003
Professor, UMDNJ-NJMS, Newark, NJ  2003 - present
Vice Chair, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, UMDNJ-NJMS, Newark, NJ  2005 - 2010
Executive Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute,  UMDNJ-NJMS, Newark, NJ  2010 - present
Interim Chair, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, UMDNJ, 2011 - 2012
Chair, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, Rutgers NJMS, 2012 - present

Editorial Board:
Circulation Research
Antioxidants and Redox Signaling
American Journal of Physiology  (Associate Editor)
Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 
Autophagy (Section Editor)
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Circulation Journal
Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research
Frontier's in Genetics in Aging
PLOS ONE
Cardiovascular Research  (Associate Editor)
Scientific Reports
Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine

Fellow:
American Heart Association (AHA)
International Society of Heart Research (ISHR)

Member:
American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)

Advisory Board:
JMA Journal https://www.jmaj.jp/editorial.php
Nature Reviews Cardiology