People

Vladimir Botchkarev, MD, PhD Center Co-Director, Professor of Dermatology
Field of Study: Skin aging and wound healing

Rhoda Alani, MD
Herbert Mescon Professor and Chair of Dermatology
Field of Study: Epigenetic regulation of cancer and aging

Lynne Goldberg, MD Professor of Dermatology
Field of Study: Hair
aging, clinical dermatology,
alopecia

Vyacheslav (Slava) Labunskyy, PhD
Center Co-Director,
Associate Professor
Field of Study: Systems biology of aging

Neelam Vashi, MD
Associate Professor of Dermatology
Field of Study: Aging skin

Samuel Beck, PhD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology
Field of Study: Genetics and genomics of aging

Danica Chen, PhD
Professor
University of California,
Berkeley

Vadim Gladyshev, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Redox Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Vera Gorbunova, PhD
Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Biology and Medicine
Co-Director, Rochester Aging Research Center

Adam Salmon, PhD
Professor
Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies

Aristidis Veves, DSc, MD
Rongxiang Xu Professor of Surgery
Director, Center for Regenerative Therapeutics at BIDMC

Stacey Andersen, MD Assistant Professor of
Medicine
Field of Study: New England Centenarian Study

Brianne Connizzo, PhD Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Field of Study: Connective tissue aging

Jimmy Crott, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Field of Study: Gut microbiome and aging

Daniel Dempsey, PhD Assistant Professor
Field of Study: Epigenetics and aging

Lindsay Farrer, PhD
Professor of Genetics, Medicine
Field of Study: Brain aging/Alzheimer disease

Rachel Flynn, PhD
Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology&Biophysics
Field of Study: Aging and cancer

Mark Grinstaff, PhD Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Field of Study: Nanotechnology & aging

Alla Grishok, PhD Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Field of Study: MicroRNAs and aging

Neil Kowall, MD
Professor of Neurology
Field of Study: Brain aging/Alzheimer disease

Igor Kramnik, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Field of Study: Lung aging & infections

Maria Kukuruzinska, PhD
Professor of Translational Dental Medicine
Field of Study: Dental aging, cancer

Nelson Lau, PhD
Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Director Genome Science Inst.
Field of Study: Basic mechanisms of aging

Giovanni Ligresti, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Field of Study: Lung fibrosis & aging

Pinghua Liu, PhD Associate Professor of Chemistry
Field of Study: Anti- aging natural compounds

Jennifer Luebke, PhD
Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Field of Study: Brain aging

Kathryn L. Lunetta, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Field of Study: Framingham Heart Study

Tara Moore, PhD Associate Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology Field of Study: Nervous system aging

Joanne Murabito, MD Professor of Medicine
Field of Study: Aging research using Framingham database

George Murphy, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine
Field of Study: Human aging, centenarians

Thomas Perls, MD/MPH Professor of Medicine
Field of Study: New England Centenarian Study

Wendy Qiu, MD/PhD Professor of Psychiatry
Field of Study: Molecular psychiatry in aging

Danny Roh, MD/PhD Assistant Professor of Surgery
Field of Study: Skin wound healing, Aging

Douglas Rosene, PhD Prof. of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Field of Study: Nervous system aging

Francesca Seta, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Field of Study: Vascular
aging

Andrei Sharov, MD/PhD Research Assistant Professor
Field of Study: Skin aging

Jennifer Snyder- Cappione, PhD Assistant Professor
Field of Study: Immune system aging

LaDora Thompson, PhD/PT Professor of Physical Therapy
Field of Study: Musculo-skeletal aging

Maria Troyanovska, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Field of Study: Connective tissue aging

Xaralobos ‘Bob’ Varelas, PhD Professor of Biochemistry
Field of Study: Aging and cancer

Ben Wolozin, MD/PhD
Professor of Pharmacology
Field of Study: Neurodegeneration and aging