He became an Assistant Professor and Director of the Biochemistry of Aging Laboratory in 1998 at the University of Florida. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, College of Medicine and Institute on Aging at BAY 73-4506 clinical trial the University of Florida and is the Chief of the Division of Biology of Aging.
His major research focus is to understand the molecular mechanism of oxidative stress and apoptosis with age. His work on assessment of oxidative damage and apoptosis with age has been increasingly recognized and appreciated by gerontologists worldwide. Demetra Christou, Ph.D. received her doctoral training at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the area of Exercise Physiology/Body Composition. She then trained as a Research Associate for six years in the area of Human Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to coming to the University of Florida, Dr. Christou was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology and the Department of Internal Medicine, Division
of Cardiology at Texas A&M University Ibrutinib supplier and Health Science Center. For the past 4 years Dr. Christou has directed the Integrative Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory. Her lab performs mechanistic biomedically-relevant research in humans from an integrative perspective using whole-body measures (e.g., flow mediated dilation via ultrasonography) complemented with cellular/molecular approaches (vascular endothelial protein expression,
mRNA expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells). The general research focus of her lab is the study of alterations in cardiovascular-autonomic Bcl-w function in aging and related risk factors for cardiovascular disease. In addition, her group is interested in the effect of lifestyle interventions such as physical activity/exercise training and diet on cardiovascular function. Current projects investigate the mechanisms responsible for vascular endothelial dysfunction and arterial stiffness in healthy aging and in older adults with metabolic syndrome. Alvaro Gurovich, P.T., Ph.D. received his Physical Therapy degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1990 and worked as a clinician for more than 15 years. Even though Dr. Gurovich had granted tenure in the School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, he moved to University of Florida where he received his doctoral degree in Health and Human Performance in 2010. Once graduated, he started his tenure as post-doctoral associate at University of Florida College of Medicine, in the Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, under Dr. Judy M.