Advisory Board
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.
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.
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.
Jenny Tung, is Visiting Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology at Duke University and the Director of the Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Tung uses genomic approaches as a lens to understand how social behavior shapes health and Darwinian fitness-related traits. Her work leverages both long-term studies of wild baboons and other social mammals and experimental studies of social status, social stress, and gene regulation in captive social species.