Felipe Sierra
Director of the Division of Aging Biology at the National Institute on Aging
Felipe Sierra, PhD. is the Director of the Division of Aging Biology at the National Institute on Aging, NIH. Trained as a biochemist in his native Chile, he obtained a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Florida in 1983. After a postdoc at the University of Geneva, he worked in industry (at Nestlé, still in Switzerland) for the next 5 years. At this stage he developed his interest in the biology of aging, an interest that brought him back to Academia (and to the United States), as an Assistant Professor at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and later as an Associate Professor at the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research in Pennsylvania. This last position was shared with a primary appointment at the University of Chile in Santiago. Four years after initiating this arrangement, Dr. Sierra relocated again to the US, this time as a Program Director within the Division of Aging Biology, NIA. He became the Director of this unit in April 2006.
Dr. Sierra is also the founder and coordinator of the trans-NIH Geroscience Interest Group (GSIG). The group spans the entire NIH, and is built on the fact that aging is the major risk factor for most chronic age-related diseases – Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and more – and thus understanding the basic biology of aging is central to our ability to address these diseases. In 2013 and 2014 he received NIH Director’s Awards for this effort.
Visit website: https://www.nia.nih.gov/about/staff/sierra-luis
See also: National Institute on Aging (NIA) - Conducting and supporting research on aging and the health and well-being of older people
Details last updated 04-Mar-2020
Felipe Sierra is also referenced in the following:
Global Healthspan Summit 2023
29-Nov-2023 to 30-Nov-2023
Longevity summit organised by Hevolution Foundation (Riyadh,Saudi Arabia)
Targeting Metabesity 2022
10-Oct-2022 to 13-Oct-2022
The Kitalys Institute virtual conference about going beyond treating individual diseases to extending healthy lifespan
Felipe Sierra News
Comprehensive history and explanation of senescent cells
The Scientist - 01-Mar-2020
Including the latest on clinical trials of first-generation senolytics
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Proto - 13-Jun-2017
Review of current thinking from the Massachusetts General Hospital - the largest teaching hospita...
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