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Siegfried Hekimi

Professor of Biology at McGill University.

Siegfried Hekimi was born in Zürich and obtained his undergraduate degree in Biology at the University of Geneva. He then moved to the famed Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, UK, to collaborate with Dr J.G. White as a post-doctoral fellow of the Swiss National Science Fund. It is at the LMB where Hekimi developed his interest for using 'the worm' for translational studies in the biology of aging. It is also in Cambridge that he identified the first mutants that helped to demonstrate that aging could be manipulated genetically and that inducing mild mitochondrial dysfunction could in fact slow down the aging process of animals. In 1992 he joined McGill University where he has been a full professor since 2004.

Visit website: https://hekimilab.mcgill.ca/

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See also: Academia McGill University - Public Research university.

Details last updated 31-Jan-2020

Siegfried Hekimi News

Mortality rate flattens among the oldest of the old

Mortality rate flattens among the oldest of the old

New York Times - 28-Jun-2018

After 105 mortality rate rise more slowly and it may be related to better genes and lifestyle

No Known Limit To How Long Humans Can Live

No Known Limit To How Long Humans Can Live

Time - 28-Jun-2017

Paper in last year's Nature human body and brain petered out around 115. Now five critiques high...