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Steven Austad

Steven Austad
Environmental head shot of Dr. Steven Austad, PhD (Distinguished Professor/Chair, Biology) in Volker Lab, 2019.

Roles

Dr. Steven Austad is a Distinguished Professor and the Inaugural Protective Life Endowed Chair in Healthy Aging Research in Department of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).  He is also Founding Director and current Co-director of UAB’s Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging and Senior Scientific Director […]

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Malene Hansen

Malene Hansen

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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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Stephen Kritchevsky

Stephen Kritchevsky
PhD, Professor, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

Roles

Stephen B. Kritchevsky, PhD is the Toby R. Alligood, MD Endowed Professor in Geroscience at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He co-directs the Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention and leads Wake Forest’s NIA-funded Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC). Dr. Kritchevsky studies nutritional influences that affect trajectories of health […]

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Andrea LaCroix

Andrea LaCroix

Roles

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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