AREAS OF SPECIALTY:

  • Animal models (for aging research)

  • Dietary strategies

  • Evolution of aging

Steven N. Austad, PhD

Dr. Steven N. Austad holds the Protective Life Endowed Chair in Healthy Aging Research, is a Distinguished Professor and former Chair of the Department of Biology at University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the founding Director and current co-director of the UAB NathanShock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging, one of 8 such NIH-funded Centers in the US. He is also co- Director of the Nathan Shock Centers Coordinating Center. Outside of UAB, he is the Scientific Director of the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR).