Mechanisms of Longevity: Lessons from Long-Lived Mammals with Vera Gorbunova, Ph.D.

Vera Gorbunova, Ph.D. is a Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Biology and Medicine and is co-director of the University of Rochester Aging Research Center. Her research is focused on understanding the mechanisms of longevity and genome stability and on the studies of exceptionally long-lived mammals. Her work has received awards from the Ellison Medical Foundation, the Glenn Foundation, the American Federation for Aging Research, and the National Institutes of Health.
Gorbunova gave the inaugural lecture of the newly established Dean’s Lecture Series on Dec. 6, 2021. The series is intended to showcase high caliber research and high impact topics in clinical medicine and related biomedical fields. The presentations will be targeted to a broad audience of investigators and trainees from multiple areas of clinical medicine, public health, and life science research, as well as for interested members of the university community and the public at large. The George D. and Freida B. Abraham Foundation are sponsoring this series.
Get information on future lectures here: www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/ab....

[@br_dr]

Wonderful presemtation of amazing research.

[@leobezhanishvili5618]

This woman is outstanding, it’s always exceptionally exciting to compare things anthropologically, as nature intended.

[@peterz53]

Thanks. Exciting research coming from Dr. Gorbunova's lab.

[@InquilineKea]

more PARP1 in the whale? wow, that can be bad if OE