Andrei Sposito, MD, PhD

Full Professor in the Department of Cardiology at University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil

Andrei Sposito is a Full Professor in the Department of Cardiology at UNICAMP. He received his MD from the University of Bahia, Brazil, in 1992 and was trained in internal medicine and cardiology at the University of São Paulo (USP). He was awarded his PhD for his work on lipid metabolism and atherogenesis while at the USP, and completed his postdoctorate in this same field at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, France.

Prof Sposito has been awarded for research productivity by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development in the last 18 years. He was the chief editor of the IV Brazilian Guidelines for the Prevention of Atherosclerosis, Associate Editor of Atherosclerosis and the Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, and Section Editor of BBA Clinical. Presently, he is a member of the Lancet EBioMedicine Editorial Board in the Cardiovascular Research/Cardiology section. He has been the author of more than 260 peer-reviewed articles in several prestigious journals such as Science, JAMA, Cell Metabolism, JACC, and his publications include chapters in Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine and Braunwald’s Heart Disease.