Penn cardiovascular disease and translational medicine expert elected to Italian Academy of Science

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Garret FitzGerald, MD, FRS, a professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and an international leader in cardiovascular disease research, has been elected as a foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Lincean Academy) -- the Italian Academy of Science in Rome.