Dr. Evripidis Gavathiotis is an associate professor of biochemistry and medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a faculty member at the Institute for Aging Research and the Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. He is conducting innovative research on the role of proteins in cancer and other age-associated diseases, with the goal of developing new medicines through small molecule modulators. Dr. Gavathiotis has co-authored over 50 scientific publications and 15 United States patent applications and received numerous awards throughout his career, including the 2014 Young Chemical Biologist Award, the Irma T. Hirschl Career Scientist Award, and the Pershing Square Sohn Prize. He trained at Rockefeller University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and received his PhD from the University of Nottingham.