Advisory Board
Carol Shively, Professor of Pathology and Comparative Medicine at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. Shively's research program focuses on social inequalities in health using nonhuman primate models. Shively’s work has been foundational to our understanding of the causal consequences of social adversity, especially for cardiovascular disease.
Shively Lab
Susan Alberts, Robert F. Durden Professor of Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University, Chair of Evolutionary Anthropology. Alberts leads one of the longest-running primate field studies in existence, the Amboseli Baboon Research Project, and has been at the forefront of efforts to understand the social determinants of mortality risk in wild mammals.
Follow @susan_alberts
Mika Kivimaki, Professor and Chair of Social Epidemiology at University College London, UK. Kivimaki’s research investigates the role of midlife risk factors in the development and progression of age-related chronic conditions—such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia, and multimorbidity—using large-scale longitudinal observational data. He leads the renowned Whitehall II study, a long-running cohort of 10,308 British men and women, and coordinates several international multicohort research consortia. Kivimaki is a Highly Cited Researcher.
Darren Baker, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Pediatrics at Mayo Clinic. Baker's research is focused on the involvement of senescent cells in the processes of aging and cancer. Baker's team has demonstrated that removal of senescent cells from a prematurely aged mouse model is effective at delaying a variety of phenotypes that are dependent on the acquisition of senescent cells. His research is also preoccupied with the role of senescent cells in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.