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CALS-affiliated scholars strive to understand how aging leads to progressively increased rates of many diseases, including cancer, heart disease, stroke and neurodegeneration. This research is approached through both fundamental biological studies into aging and by revealing how human behavior can forestall the onset of age-related disease. Results from this research may make it possible to slow the aging process and in so doing, to diminish the incidence of a broad range age-related diseases, resulting in extension of the youthful and healthy period of one’s life. Through such research it may be possible to discover specific strategies that effectively decrease many diseases simultaneously, thereby diminishing healthcare burden and costs, and promoting a more robust human population.

Affiliated Researchers

Department Chair and Professor
Communication
Virtual reality with older adults in assisted living to communicate with family living far away; reminiscence therapy
Director for Education and Outreach, CALS
Associate Teaching Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Functions of autobiographical memory across adulthood and cultures, and relations to psychological well-being
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Migration, discrimination, stratification and health in older adults; Mexican Family Life Survey
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Psychological and Brain Sciences
Age-related vision loss and accessible technologies
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Comparative biology of cancer, human cancer in evolutionary perspective
Adjunct Professor UCSB
Associate Professor
Geroscience Center for Brain Health and Metabolism
University of Chile
Role of mitochondria in cellular senescence, development of drugs that extend healthspan, identification of senescence biomarkers
Professor Emeritus, Physics
Maximizing bone health and detection of age-related bone loss. Development of biofeedback systems to reduce chronic pain, anxiety, and insomnia in aging individuals.
Associate Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences
Effects of menopause and age-related reproductive hormone changes on dementia and cognition
Department Chair and Senior Lecturer
Exercise & Sport Studies
Promotion of wellness over the lifespan, exercise prescription, nutrition for health and healthy behaviors.
Senior Scientist and Director of Scientific Communication, CALS
Aging and longevity research; analysis and communication of rigorous evidence-based intervention in aging and lifespan extension.
Postdoctoral Scholar in Data Science
Center for Black Studies Research at UC Santa Barbara
Effect of socioeconomic status, structural, and tecno-cultural determinants on the quality of life of older adults
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Revealing the fundamental principles of healthy and pathological aging with artificial intelligence (AI)
Director and Founder, CALS
Distinguished Professor
Wilcox Family Chair in Biotechnology
Director, Biomolecular Science and Engineering
Mechanisms of aging, longevity, and resilience
Professor, Department of Economics
Promotion of healthy behaviors
Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Mechanisms of tauopathies and aging-related amyloidoses
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Age-related changes in physical abilities and accessible technologies
Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Life-span analysis of the molecular mechanisms of cognitive impairment caused by environmental insults and targeting pharmacotherapeutics for its reversal
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Changes in social relationships and integration with aging in non-human primates and across human cultures. Influences of social environments and their disparities on age-related inflammation.
Professor, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Metabolic therapies in extension of healthspan and lifespan
Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology
Systems level mechanisms of cellular dysfunction caused by age-related decline and mechanisms for reversal
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Medicinal synthetic chemistry directed at biological processes involved in senescence, longevity, and aging