Hilary Grosso Jasutkar, MD, PhD

Instructor, Neurology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Associate Member, Rutgers Center for Healthy Aging Research

Hilary Grosso Jasutkar, MD, PhD earned her PhD in neuroscience in 2012 under the supervision of Dr. M. Maral Mouradian, and her medical degree in 2014, both at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She then completed a medical internship at Lankenau Medical Center, followed by a residency in neurology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). After her residency training, Dr. Grosso pursued a medical fellowship in the management of age-related disorders of cognition in the CUIMC Neurology Department’s Division of Aging and Dementia, during which time she worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Ai Yamamoto at CUIMC. She then joined the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Institute for Neurological Therapeutics as a clinical and research Instructor in Neurology in 2021.

Dr. Grosso’s research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms by which autophagy supports synaptic function, and how protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases disrupts synaptic autophagy. Currently she is using genetically modified mice to model autophagy loss in the adult, and to study the impact of the Alzheimer’s disease-associated protein APP on autophagy at the synapse.