Stefanie Marek Iannucci, MD, PhD, received her MD at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Prior to joining the Cedars-Sinai graduate program Stefanie worked as an emergency physician with the Austrian Red Cross. In 2017 she moved to the US and began working in the Gottlieb Laboratory where she focused on mitochondrial and autophagy-driven molecular mechanisms involved in myocardial disfunction during ischemic injury. She subsequently entered the Graduate Program of Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai where she has investigated the role of autophagy/mitophagy in cardiovascular inflammation in a murine model of Kawasaki syndrome vasculitis in the Arditi Laboratory. After graduation, she will be joining the cardiology department of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she will continue her clinical career as a cardiology fellow in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology, combined with research activity in their mitochondria core as well as clinically related research.