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Leonard Guarente

Sirtuins Aging and Disease


 

Leonard Guarente in the Novartis Professor of Biology and Director of the Glenn Laboratory for the Science of Aging at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research is focused on molecular mechanisms regulating aging using model systems of C. elegans, mice and mammalian cells. He studies the mechanisms in which SIR2 related genes regulate lifespan.