{"id":78139,"date":"2018-04-30T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/interventions-to-extend-healthspan-and-lifespan-2018-professor-david-gems"},"modified":"2018-04-30T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:22:22","slug":"interventions-to-extend-healthspan-and-lifespan-2018-professor-david-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/interventions-to-extend-healthspan-and-lifespan-2018-professor-david-gems","title":{"rendered":"Interventions to Extend Healthspan and Lifespan 2018 \u2013 Professor David Gems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/interventions-to-extend-healthspan-and-lifespan-2018-professor-david-gems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elena Milova was at the <a href=\"https:\/\/extendlifespan2018.org\/\">Interventions to extend healthspan and lifespan 2018<\/a> conference in Kazan this week. This is an important conference in the aging research field, and it includes a variety of leading experts giving talks about their research. During the event, Elena had the opportunity to talk with professor David Gems about his work and his views on aging.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Gems is a British geneticist and biogerontologist. He is Professor of Biology of Ageing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/~ucbtdag\/DGHistory.html\">University College London<\/a>, where he is also Deputy Director of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/biosciences\/departments\/gee\/research-centres\/institute-healthy-ageing\/\"> Institute of Healthy Ageing<\/a>. His work focuses on understanding aging through the genetics of the nematode worm C. elegans.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/professor-david-gems\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/professor-david-gems\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Milova was at the Interventions to extend healthspan and lifespan 2018 conference in Kazan this week. This is an important conference in the aging research field, and it includes a variety of leading experts giving talks about their research. During the event, Elena had the opportunity to talk with professor David Gems about his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78139","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}