Arjumand Ghazi, PhD

With a rapidly aging global population, it is a public health issue of great significance. Research on aging not only helps us understand a fundamental and fascinating biological process, but it may also be the least expensive and fastest path to simultaneously targeting multiple age-associated pathologies. Recent discoveries have suggested that aging is not just the result of stochastic cellular damage. Instead, it is strongly influenced by genes that appear to be conserved in their longevity functions, from worms to humans. Such longevity genes are the focus of our lab’s research.