“The Methuselah Mouse Prize and the Quest to Cure Age-related Diseases”
Friday, February 2nd, 2007[Back to Meetings]
Date and Time: Friday, February 02, 2007, 4 PM
Location: Room 2919 at the Arizona Cancer Center, 1515 N. Campbell | map
Title: "The Methuselah Mouse Prize and the Quest to Cure Age-related Diseases"
Presenter: Fyodor Trestoyevsky, MCB Senior who has performed volunteer work for the Methuselah Foundation, which sponsors the Methuselah Mouse Prize
Presentation Description: The Methuselah Mouse Prize is given to researchers who break longevity records in a mouse model. Fyodor Trestoyevsky will give a short overview of the Methuselah Mouse Prize (currently greater than $4,000,000), the rationale for the prize's existence and how it might contribute to the amelioration of human suffering, the teams that are officially competing for the prize, and the differences between humans and mice in terms of aging.