Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Vincenzo Sorrentino is an Italian-born scientist in the fields of aging, mitochondrial biology and neuromuscular degeneration. After his PhD with honors obtained at the University of Amsterdam in Medical Biochemistry, he carried his postdoctoral research in Prof. Johan Auwerx’s lab at the EPFL in Switzerland. From 2019 till 2022, he took a role as Group Leader at the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences in Switzerland, to lead research focused on integrating basic discoveries on natural bioactives that modulate NAD+, mitochondria and protein homeostasis with their possible translation into clinical applications. Currently, he is Assistant Professor at the NUS with the Healthy Longevity Translational Research Program, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam. His work on mitochondria and NAD+ metabolism in Alzheimer’s disease and muscle aging has resulted in his discoveries appearing in Nature (2017), Cell Reports (2021) and just recently with the discovery of trigonelline as a novel NAD+ precursor, in Nature Metabolism (2024).