AREAS OF SPECIALTY:
Metabolic regulation of aging
Dietary interventions, fasting/feeding
Convergent mechanisms of longevity
Adam Antebi, PhD
Director, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
Dr. Antebi is currently one of the founding Directors at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, and an honorary Professor at the University of Cologne, Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses and Age-associated Disease.
He carried out his PhD in Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his post-doctoral studies at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Antebi’s research is focused on deciphering convergent endocrine and metabolic networks governing animal longevity and rejuvenation, using diverse model organisms including worms, killifish, mice and humans. Among his discoveries, he has found that components of developmental clocks and nuclear receptor signaling regulate life span, and that small nucleoli are a cellular hallmark of longevity. He served years as an editor-in-chief of the journal “Aging Cell” and has won various honors including the Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Aging Award, the Paul Glenn/American Federation for Aging Research Breakthrough in Gerontology Award, the Runnstrom Lecture Award, the ADPS Longevity Award, the ERC Advanced Grant, the Bennet Cohen Award in Aging Research, and is an EMBO fellow.