Prof. Leonard P. Guarente is an American biologist best known for his research on life span extension in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, round worms Caenorhabditis elegans, and mice. He is currently a Novartis Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (http://web.mit.edu/biology/guarente/)
Based on the discovery that SIR2 is a key regulator of longevity in both yeast and worms, he is interested in determining whether this highly-conserved gene also governs longevity in other organisms, including mammals.
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