Jeffery D. Molkentin, PhD. Is a Professor in the Department of pediatrics, University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital in the United States of America. He is also the Division Director of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology and co-director of the Heart Institute. He received his B.S. from Marquette University in Milwaukee Wisconsin (USA) in 1989. He then received his PhD from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1994, after which he performed postdoctoral training with Dr. Eric Olson in Texas (USA) from 1994-1997, followed by his first faculty appointment in 1997 at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center of the University of Cincinnati (USA). Dr. Molkentin has published over 430 original articles during this time, he has a Scopus H-index of 127 and Google Scholar h-index of 149. Dr. Molkentin was a Pew Scholar early in his career and a full investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the USA from 2008-2021. He has won several awards such as the Louis N and Arnold M Katz award to young investigators and more recently the Basic Research Prize, both of the American Heart Association. Dr. Molkentin also won the Lucian Award from McGill University. Dr Molkentin has placed 35 of his past trainees into academics as laboratory principal investigators. Projects in the laboratory focus on the identification of candidate genes and signaling pathways involved in cardiac hypertrophy, contractility, cell death, heart failure, fibrosis, regeneration and muscular dystrophy, as well as mitochondria-dependent necrosis.