Awards & Honors

Prof. Santulli's Awards (Selection)

• 2026: Elected Member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)
• 2025: AHA Hypertension Award for Research Excellence
• 2024: ‘Thomas Force’ Mentor Award (ACC) – Mentorship to Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Jessica Gambardella
• 2024: Top Reviewer: JBC, Cardiovascular Research
• 2023: Elected Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA)
• 2023: Valsalva Award – Italian Society of Cardiovascular Science (SIRC)
• 2023: Top 0.3% of 378,918 published authors worldwide on Hypertension (Expertscape)
• 2022: Winner - Catalytic seed grant; NCATS: NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
• 2021: Winner - Named 2021 "Hirschl/Weill-Caulier” Research Scholar
• 2020: Runner-up - Young Investigator Competition Awards (YICA) – NAS-ISHR (SENIOR TIER)
• 2019: Included among the Top Scientists Worldwide (METRICS, Stanford University)
• 2019: Finalist - AHA “Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz” Research Prize for Early Career Investigators
• 2019: American Physiological Society “Cardiovascular Section New Investigator Award”
• 2018: Full Professor of Cardiology - National Call for all Italian Universities (Qualification)
• 2017: Best Italian Researcher under 40y - European Cultural Institute of Brussels
• 2017: Sentinel Rater - McMaster University, Hamilton (CA): Clinical relevance rating system
• 2016: Finalist - American Heart Association, “Melvin L. Marcus” Young Investigator Award
• 2016: Young Investigator Award – ISSNAF (International Association of North America Scientists and Scholars)
• 2016: Sentinel of Science (top contributor to peer-review) – Clarivate Analytics, London
• 2016: Included among Top Italian Scientists Worldwide, V.I.A. Academy (highly cited scientists): H-index: >70
• 2016: Finalist - (ISHR) World meeting of cardiology – Young Investigator Award
• 2015: Four Highly Cited Papers (Thomson Reuters Corporation) - Top 1% in biomedicine
• 2015: NIH - K99 Pathway to Independence Award (High Score: 13 – Funded on First Submission)
• 2015: AHA Scientist Development Grant (SDG, High Score: 1.12 – Funded on First Submission)
• 2014: US Presidential Award for Precision Medicine (Endocrine Society International Meeting)
• 2013: “William Harvey” Award for Research in Cardiology (Italian Society of Cardiology)
• 2013: American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral Fellowship (High Score: 1.1)
• 2011: Young Investigator Award, Veronesi Foundation for Cardiovascular Research

Professional Services

• Grant reviewer for multiple Institutes and Associations including NIH, NSF, ERC, NYAS, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, AHA (USA), AFM Telethon (France), Ministero della Salute, Fondazione PISA, Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca (Italia), Israel Science Foundation, Austrian Science Fund, Icelandic Research Fund, Polish Research Fund, NIHR, ME Research, and Wellcome Trust (UK)
• Member of the following Study Sections:
  • CSS (Cell Structure and Survival): 2019-present
  • HIRN (Human Islet Research Network) BCDS (Beta Cell Death and Survival): 2020-present
  • CCHF (Cardiac Contractility, Hypertrophy, and Failure): 2020-2021
  • MPPA (Integrative Myocardial Physiology/Pathophysiology A): 2021-present
  • HSDO (Human Studies of Diabetes and Obesity): 2022-present
  • EMNR (Endocrinology, Metabolism, Nutrition and Reproductive Sciences): 2022-present
  • CSME (Cell Signaling and Molecular Endocrinology): 2022-present
  • NIDDK's Small Business Endocrinology Metabolism and Reproduction: 2023-present
  • NHLBI’s SBIR/STTR Grants (R41/R42/R43/R44): 2024-present
  • CCHS (Clinical Integrative Cardiovascular and Hematological Sciences): 2025-present