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The End of Ageing: Imperial College London

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19/10/2010 - 18:15
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Imperial College London will host an event entitled, The end of ageing, Tuesday 19th October, 2010.

Speaker: Professor Nadia Rosenthal
Date: Tuesday 19 October 2010, 18.15,
 

Location: Physics Lecture Theatre 1, Blackett Building, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road SW7

Web Address: www.friendsofimperial.org.uk

Prof Rosenthal's commitment to understanding muscle is leading her towards breakthroughs in preventing and treating heart attacks and discoveries made in mice are being used to translate to strategies for human therapy much more quickly than ever before. In this talk Nadia will extend her thinking about stem cells in regeneration to include how stem cells may play a role in reversing the process of ageing and perhaps even extending life span.

With her research team, she has found that insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) can slow or even reverse muscle loss in mouse models of degenerative diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Besides holding the Chair in Cardiovascular Science at Imperial College Professor Rosenthal is Senior Scientist and Head of the Mouse Biology Unit at European Molecular Laboratory in Rome, and Founding Director of the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute at Monash University in Melbourne.  She is American by birth, studying for a doctorate at Harvard Medical School before training as a post doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health and returning to carry out research at Harvard.

 

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