James Kirkland, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

Mayo Clinic

James L. Kirkland, M.D., Ph.D., a specialist in internal medicine, geriatrics, and endocrinology, is Noaber Foundation Professor of Aging Research at Mayo Clinic. He studies cellular senescence, discovered the first agents that selectively eliminate senescent cells - senolytics -, and demonstrated they delay, prevent, or alleviate multiple disorders and diseases in pre-clinical models. He published the first gerodiagnostic score of senescent cell abundance and the first clinical trials of senolytic drugs. He has >290 publications (H index: 98). He is Principal Investigator of the NIH Translational Geroscience Network and is involved in 82 interventional and observational clinical studies, President of the American Federation for Aging Research, and was the 2020 recipient of the Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction in Aging Research.

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Presentation(s):

• Fountain of Youth: Fighting Aging to Prevent Age-Related Diseases

  Friday, March 29, 2024
  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MDT