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I am an Investigator at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, USA.
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04/2025: I am deeply honored to be the recipient of the 2025 WHISPR Award from the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women's Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital. I am so grateful for this opportunity to contribute to women's health research and can't wait to dive into this important project with the support of such an amazing community. Thank you to Drs. Hadine Joffe, MD MSc, Laura Holsen, Kathryn Rexrode and the entire Connors Center for this wonderful honor.
03/2025: I co-authored a recap of the 2025 Biomarkers of Aging Consortium, led by Dr. Erik Jacques, published in Nature Aging.
03/2025: I truly enjoyed the opportunity to visit Japan to speak at the Japanese Society of Anti-Aging Medicine's annual meeting in Okinawa, and then at Juntendo University in Tokyo. Thanks to Prof. Horie Shigeo, Dr. Tsuyoshi Hachiya, and colleagues for the invitation and kind hospitality. Looking forward to a fruitful ongoing collaboration!
02/2025: A short commentary I co-authored with Mahdi Moqri, Steve Horvath, and Vadim Gladyshev on factors driving epigenetic clock signals was published in Nature Aging.
02/2025: I was quoted in Nicoletta Lanese's article "Biological aging may not be driven by what we thought" in LiveScience.
12/2024: I organized a breakout session titled "Innovative tools and approaches for studying the biology of aging at the Broad" at the Broad's 20th Scientific Retreat. We featured talks from Vadim Gladyshev, Aoxing Liu, Jonathan Gootenberg, Omar Abudayyeh, and Mahdi Moqri. Thank you to Sinéad Chapman for championing this session!
12/2024: It was a pleasure to return to the Longevity Summit at the Buck Institute this year to give an update on the work of the Biomarkers of Aging Consortium.
11/2024: It was a pleasure to speak at the Future of Aging Research 2024 Mixer, organized by the Aging Initiative at Harvard.
11/2024: The 2024 Biomarkers of Aging Conference was a huge success! It was great to share two amazing days with over 450 colleagues at HMS.
10/2024: I spoke at the "Interdisciplinary Discussion on How Can AI Transform Aging Research” organized by the Harvard Graduate Student Club, Interdisciplinary Discussion on Disease and Health, organized by Albert Ying and colleagues. Themes from this event were published in the World Economic Forum.
09/2024: The 3rd collaborative manuscript of the Biomarkers of Aging Consortium was published in Nature Aging. Tori Roberts from MGB Communications prepared a nice summary based on an interview with me.
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08/2024: I spoke at the 11th Aging Research and Drug Design (ARDD) conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
07/2024: I was quoted in Lisa Rappaport's article on biological age tests in Everyday Health.
06/2024: I spoke at the second Systems Aging GRC in Barcelona, Spain.
05/2024: I gave back-to-back talks on our recent work and the consortium at the Longevity Med Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, and the virtual Systems Biology of Aging Workshop hosted by the Institute for Systems Biology.
04/2024: Mahdi and I joined Longevity Global's new Boston Chapter at their first meetup to discuss biomarkers of aging.
03/2024: I was quoted in a STAT article describing a great new study in Cell Metabolism that independently replicated and extended our discovery of transient biological age elevation during pregnancy.
03/2024: Brigham Clinical & Research News wrote a really nice article about aging research across BWH, featuring quotes from Jessica Lasky-Su, Vadim Gladyshev, Mahdi Moqri, and me.
03/2024: Rebecca Kranz of What A Year, a publication of the Massachusetts Society for Medical Research aimed at middle and high school students, prepared a nice write up of a recent interview with me, Bohan Zhang, and Vadim Gladyshev.
02/2024: The second publication of the Biomarkers of Aging Consortium on validation of aging biomarkers was published in Nature Medicine!
02/2024: I was quoted in Dr. Ken Springer's Statisfied Substack.
02/2024: Mahdi and I spoke about our research and the work of the consortium at the Boston Computational Biology Society's webinar on February 1. See the recording here (password: PxY8H+A0).
01/2024: Longevity.Technology wrote an excellent recap of our Biomarkers of Aging Symposium held last December:
12/2023: I was quoted in Dana Smith's article on biological age testing in the New York Times:
12/2023: Our Cell Metabolism paper on biological age fluctuations was listed as a piece of top performing research from BWH in 2023:
12/2023: Our work on biological age fluctuations ("The Promising Weirdness of Biological Age") was featured in the Harvard Gazette's 2023 Highlights:
12/2023: Mahdi and I appeared on the VitaDao podcast to discuss the Biomarkers of Aging Consortium:
12/2023: We had a fantastic inaugural Biomarkers of Aging Symposium at the beautiful Buck Institute. Thanks to everyone who came! We are looking forward to next year's conference at HMS in Boston, November 1–2, 2024.
11/2023: Mahdi Moqri and I appeared on the National University of Singapore's Centre for Healthy Longevity Webinar series to promote the work of the Biomarkers of Aging Consortium:
09/2023: An opinion piece I co-authored with Vadim was published in PNAS! We lay out the case for grappling with the most foundational features of the aging process, namely the essence and biological nature of aging, as a way to accelerate progress in our exciting and important field.
08/2023: Longevity.Technology covered the Consortium's first manuscript and included comments from Mahdi, Vadim, and me:
08/2023: The inaugural collaborative manuscript of the Biomarkers of Aging Consortium was published in Cell! This manuscript presents a framework for the evaluation of aging biomarkers.
06/2023: Two methods papers on Z-REX, a platform I contributed to establishing in zebrafish during my PhD, were published in Nature Protocols and JoVE.
04/2023: Our paper on biological age fluctuations in response to severe physiological stress was published in Cell Metabolism!
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03/2023: I spoke to Hannah Went on the Everything Epigenetics podcast about our recent work and the future of epigenetic aging biomarkers. You can find this on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other streaming platforms.
03/2023: I am excited to be serving on the Executive Committee of the newly launched Biomarkers of Aging Consortium. This important effort is aimed at cultivating consensus in the aging field to develop robust biomarkers of aging. Learn more at the consortium website and in this interview with Dr. Mahdi Moqri, who conceived the idea for the consortium and has been its main driving force.
12/2022: I spoke with Jim Mora of Radio New Zealand about our recent work on biological aging: Link
10/2022: You can watch a talk I gave at Metabesity 2022 here (my talk starts around 36:00): Link
10/2022: A manuscript I collaborated on during my PhD was published in eLife. We ascribed differential functions to the two zebrafish paralogs of the stress sensor protein Keap1: Link
05/2022: Lifespan.io wrote a great summary of our work on stress and aging: Link
05/2022: Our preprint on transient changes in biological age is available on BioRxiv: Link
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