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Eleonora Scorletti, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor and Director of Translational Metabolic Liver Research, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine · ORCID · CV (PDF) · NIH biosketch (PDF)

Dr. Scorletti is a translational physician-scientist trained in Preventive Medicine. She earned her MD at the University of Pavia, Italy, and her PhD in Nutrition and Metabolism at the University of Southampton, UK, under the mentorship of Professors Christopher Byrne and Philip Calder. She then joined the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed postdoctoral training with Dr. Rotonya Carr and continued as Instructor of Genetics in the laboratory of Dr. Daniel Rader. She was awarded the NIH/NIDDK K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award under the mentorship of Dr. Rader and Dr. FitzGerald.

In 2026 she joined the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Johns Hopkins University as Director of Translational Metabolic Liver Research and launched the Scorletti Lab, supported by her NIH/NIDDK K99/R00 award and an NIH/NIA R21. She has held the AASLD Foundation Afdhal/McHutchison LIFER Award and received the Edward Holmes Clinical Research Award for Early Career Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.

• 2026 – Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
• 2026 – Director of Translational Metabolic Liver Research, Johns Hopkins University
• 2023 – 2026 Instructor of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania
• 2018 – 2023 Postdoctoral researcher, University of Pennsylvania
• 2014 – 2018 PhD, Nutrition & Metabolism, University of Southampton, UK
• 2011 – 2018 Clinical Research Fellow, NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre
• 2007 – 2011 Residency, Preventive Medicine, University of Pavia, Italy
• 1999 – 2005 MD, University of Pavia, Italy