Quantification of Biological Aging for Testing Interventions to Extend Healthy Lifespan
Posted: 5/6/2019 (CSDE Seminar Series)
Daniel Belsky, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University, will review data from analysis of US, UK, and New Zealand cohorts to test how proposed quantifications of biological aging are related to other indicators of healthy lifespan; if different approaches to quantification of biological aging measure the same underlying construct; and if measured biological aging is modified in a randomized trial of caloric restriction, an intervention known to extend healthy lifespan in animals. Results suggest new directions for population health science and offer evidence for an approach to accelerating development of interventions to extend healthy lifespan.
Date: 05/10/2019
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM
Location: 121 Raitt Hall