{"id":117735,"date":"2020-12-29T04:28:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T12:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/dr-vera-gorbunova-working-at-the-intersection-of-aging-dna-repair-and-cancer"},"modified":"2020-12-29T04:28:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T12:28:11","slug":"dr-vera-gorbunova-working-at-the-intersection-of-aging-dna-repair-and-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/dr-vera-gorbunova-working-at-the-intersection-of-aging-dna-repair-and-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Vera Gorbunova \u2014 Working At The Intersection Of Aging, DNA Repair, And Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3-mdd_vMYz0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>University of rochester \u2014 working at the intersection of aging, DNA repair, and cancer.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dr. Vera Gorbunova is the Doris Johns Cherry Professor, in the Department of Biology, and Co-director, Rochester Aging Research Center, at University of Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>Her research is focused on understanding the mechanisms of longevity and genome stability and on the studies of exceptionally long-lived mammals.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gorbunova earned her B.Sc. degrees at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, and her Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gorbunova was instrumental in pioneering the comparative biology approach to studying aging and identifying rules that control the evolution of tumor suppressor mechanisms depending on the species lifespan and body mass.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/dr-vera-gorbunova-working-at-the-intersection-of-aging-dna-repair-and-cancer\">Continue reading \u201cDr. Vera Gorbunova \u2014 Working At The Intersection Of Aging, DNA Repair, And Cancer\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of rochester \u2014 working at the intersection of aging, DNA repair, and cancer. Dr. Vera Gorbunova is the Doris Johns Cherry Professor, in the Department of Biology, and Co-director, Rochester Aging Research Center, at University of Rochester. Her research is focused on understanding the mechanisms of longevity and genome stability and on the studies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}