Drs. Joe Verghese, Sofiya Milman, Nir
Barzilai, and Ana
Maria Cuervo represented the Department of Medicine at the Gerontological
Society of America's (GSA) 67th Annual Scientific Meeting,
November 5-9, 2014 in Washington, D.C.
J. Verghese, MB, BS"Our ongoing longitudinal studies link the bench and the
bedside and improve our understanding of the aging process and
driving discoveries that may potentially slow it," said Dr.
Verghese."
S. Milman, MDDr. Milman's presentation, "High-Density Lipoprotein
Cholesterol Phenotype and Genotype Predict Survival in
Individuals With Exceptional Longevity", shared research finding that older women and older men with both higher levels of "good" (HDL) cholesterol and a variant of the HDL-increasing gene CETP survived longest. Dr. Milman's work was featured in the Friday, November 6 edition of the Washington Post.
N. Barzilai, MDIn "Alterations in Body Composition with Aging and Connections to Diseases and Mortality", Dr. Barzilai shared findings that abdominal (visceral) obesity appears to be a stronger indicator than body mass index (BMI) for determining a person's risk of dying, particularly for Asian populations,
with a lower "healthy" BMI range and and higher likelihood of
abdominal obesity.
A.M. Cuervo, MD, PhDDr. Cuervo presented "Selective Autophagy in the Fight against Proteotoxicity in Aging Autophagy", sharing that autophagy--the degrading and recycling of intracellular components--is an essential cellular process.
Dr. Richard Lipton, postdoctoral fellow Dr. Andrea Zammit, and medical student Rebecca Kamil also participated in presenting at the conference.
