Dr. Sofiya Milman is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of Endocrinology and Geriatrics and is the Director of Human Longevity Studies at Einstein’s Institute for Aging Research . Dr. Milman’s research focuses on a unique population of centenarians and their families who are generally free of age-related diseases. Healthy longevity runs in most of these families, suggesting a heritable basis for this phenomenon. Dr. Milman's team conducts translational research focused on the discovery of genomic mechanisms that regulate endocrine and metabolic pathways that protect against common age-related diseases, like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's.