Contact: Brian Buta, bbuta@jhmi.edu, 410-502-3412 Under the auspices of EBA training program and the Older Americans Independence Center, COAH has instituted a series of Invited Seminars on Aging Series, held monthly at COAH. Seminars are attended by trainees, Core Faculty, and others with interests in aging. The broad goal of the Seminars on Aging Series is to stimulate interdisciplinary research investigating the health concerns for an aging society, particularly focused on opportunities for prevention, through engaging leading experts in the discussion of research agendas and findings pertaining to the field. Past seminar speakers include James F. Fries, M.D., Bruce McEwen, Ph.D., and James W. Vaupel, Ph.D. among many other distinguished speakers. David A. Sinclair, Ph.D. Professor of Pathology and Co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging at Harvard Medical School. Presentation title: "Sirtuin Biology and the Prospect of Drugs to Slow Aging." For information on Dr. Sinclair, please visit: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/sinclair.html. The seminar will take place in 2024 E. Monument St., Suite 2-1002 (Learning and Development Lecture Hall), across the hall from COAH. Professor and Department Chair, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at University of Maryland School of Medicine. Presentation title: TBA. For information on Dr. Magaziner, please visit: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/facultyresearchprofile/viewprofile.aspx?id=671. January/February 2010: TBA March/April 2010: TBA |