Faculty

Qian Chen, PhD

Professor of Medical Science Department of Orthopaedics

Qian_Chen@Brown.EDU

Research Interests Skeletal development and aging, osteoarthritis, role of senescent cells in skeletal aging, mechano-transduction

Sarah Delaney, PhD

Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry

Sarah_Delaney@brown.edu

Research Interests Biological consequences of DNA damage, oxidative stress, role of chromatin structure in DNA damage repair

Justin Fallon, PhD

Professor of Medical Science, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Department of Neuroscience

Research Interests Neuromuscular junction, adult neurogenesis and neurodegeneration, aging, Alzheimer’s Disease therapeutics

Richard Freiman, PhD

Associate Professor of Medical Science, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

Richard_Freiman@brown.edu

Research Interests Reproductive aging, senescence, chromatin and transcriptional control, systemic effects of reproductive failure

Philip Gruppuso, MD

Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics

Philip_Gruppuso@brown.edu

Stephen Helfand, MD

Associate Director for Research, Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

Stephen_Helfand@brown.edu

Research Interests Genetic control of longevity, calorie restriction, sirtuins, insulin/IGF signaling

Gideon Koren, MD

Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine

Gideon_Koren@brown.edu

Research Interests Cardiovascular aging, arrhythmia, sudden cardiac death, role of senescent cells in heart aging, senolytic therapy

Associate Director of the Brown Center on the Biology of Aging, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry (Research) Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

Jill_Kreiling@brown.edu

Research Interests Cellular senescence, chromatin changes with aging, miRNAs, neural stem cells, epigenetics

Louis Lapierre, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

Louis_Lapierre@brown.edu

Research Interests Loss of protein homeostasis as a driver of aging, autophagy, lipid metabolism, anti-aging therapeutics

Erica Larschan, PhD

Associate Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

Erica_Larschan@brown.edu

Research Interests Regulation of chromatin states and transcription, epigenetic regulation of sex-specific differences during aging.

Jonghwan Lee, PhD

Eric Morrow, PhD

Nicola Neretti, PhD

Associate Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

Research Interests Computational biology, bioinformatics, chromatin, nuclear organization, cellular senescence, aging

Kate O’Connor-Giles, PhD

David Rand, PhD

Professor of Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

David_Rand@brown.edu

Research Interests Nuclear-mitochondrial genetic interactions, mitochondrial genetics of aging, molecular evolution, oxidative respiration

Robert A. Reenan, PhD

Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

Robert_Reenan@brown.edu

Jennifer Sanders, PhD

Co-Director of the Pathobiology Graduate Program, Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Research), Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Research)

Research Interests Liver stem cells, developmental plasticity, cell senescence in regeneration, oxidative stress, transplantation