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CREA

Center for Research and Education on Aging

Directors' Welcome Message

Welcome to CREA. We are so glad you're here. The Center for Research and Education on Aging (CREA) is a joint LBNL and UCB institution. Our mission is to investigate the basic processes that cause aging, with the goal of improving and extending human health span. CREA integrates the efforts of cell and molecular biologists, structural and computational biologists, geneticists, physiologists and public health professionals, who are the intellectual assets and resources of the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. We are excited to see what the future will bring, and we hope you'll join our mission and vision.


George A. Brooks
Chairman, Center for Research & Education on Aging
Professor, Department of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley

Steven A. Garan
Director of Bioinformatics, Center for Research & Education on Aging
Researcher,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

AGING RESEARCH

HIGHLIGHTS

Judith Campisi receives Olav Thon Foundation Prize

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It is the organization’s first international research award in the medical and natural sciences. Dr. Campisi was recognized for her pioneering work on the connection between aging, cancer, and cellular senescence. She shares the prize with Yosef Shiloh.

Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn receives the Paola S. Timiras Award

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The Center for Research and Education in Aging (CREA) will hold its first Paola S. Timiras Memorial Award for Aging Research. The event was held on Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 from 4:00pm to 5:00pm. The event starts with an introduction by Dr. Greg Cole of UCLA, afterwards the awards ceremony commences with Dr. Blackburn accepting the first Paola S. Timiras Memorial Award for Aging Research. This is followed by Dr. Blackburn's lecture related to aging research. Dr. Blackburn won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine and was on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley she is now a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco.

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