Nazario is a molecular biologist by training and brings to Volastra years of experience in genetics, cytogenetics and cancer biology. Nazario recently worked at NYU Langone as a Senior Scientist where he studied the causes and consequences of chromosome gains and losses in solid tumors. He received his Ph.D. in genetics and molecular biology from the Sapienza University of Rome and did his postdoctoral training at The Rockefeller University working with Dr. Titia de Lange on deciphering how telomere dysfunction promotes genome instability.