Leonard Guarente

Leonard Guarente is the Novartis Professor of Biology, and an affiliate of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. His lab discovered the role of a family of proteins termed sirtuins in aging and disease and the function of sirtuins as NAD+ dependent protein deacetylases. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and recipient of the AFAR highest achievement award for aging research. He is currently analyzing aging of the human brain and how it relates to neurodegenerative diseases. He is on the editorial boards of Cell Metabolism, Trends in Genetics, EMBO Reports, Aging, and Experimental Gerontology. He is a founder of Elysium Health and Galilei BioSciences, and on the scientific advisory boards of Segterra and Sebelius.