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BMHA External Advisory Board, HALO External Advisory Board
Dr. Hansen (she/her) is Chief Scientific Officer and Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Northern California. She obtained a Master of Science in biochemistry in 1998, and a doctorate in molecular biology in 2001, both from Copenhagen University, Denmark. Dr. Hansen carried out postdoctoral studies at the University of California, San […]
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BMHA External Advisory Board, HALO External Advisory Board
Dr. LaCroix is Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at the University of California, San Diego. She is also the Director of the Women’s Health and Reproductive Justice Research Program, and the Healthy Aging and Human Longevity Research Program at UCSD and a Faculty Director […]
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BMHA External Advisory Board, BMHA Training Faculty, HALO Faculty
Genomic instability, cancer and aging The main focus of Dr. Risques’ research is the study of the molecular mechanisms that link genomic instability and aging. The main molecular alterations that her lab studies are telomere shortening, mitochondrial dysfunction, and age-related accumulation of somatic mutations. She has published on comparative analyses of aging relating telomere length […]
