Dr. Iain Scott received his PhD in 2006 from the University of St. Andrews, for research on the machinery regulating mitochondrial morphology and dynamics. He then moved to the National Institutes of Health in the United States for his postdoc, where he worked on apoptosis, mitochondrial metabolism, and lysine acetylation. Dr. Scott joined the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology in August 2014, and was promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine with Tenure in June 2020. His laboratory focuses on altered mitochondrial bioenergetics and fuel substrate metabolism in cardiometabolic diseases