{"id":83944,"date":"2018-10-25T07:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T14:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/dr-david-sinclair-ama"},"modified":"2018-10-25T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:05:49","slug":"dr-david-sinclair-ama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/dr-david-sinclair-ama","title":{"rendered":"Dr. David Sinclair AMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dr-david-sinclair-ama.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the 23rd of this month, Dr. David Sinclair did an Ask Me Anything over at <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/Futurology\/comments\/9qcuv0\/the_dr_david_sinclair_ama\/\">the Futurology subreddit<\/a> in support of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifespan.io\/campaigns\/can-nmn-increase-longevity\/\">NAD+ Mouse Project<\/a> on Lifespan.io. There were a range of interesting questions from the community about his work in aging research, particularly the role of NAD+ in aging.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. David A. Sinclair is a Professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and a co-joint Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of New South Wales. He is the co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging and a Senior Scholar of the Ellison Medical Foundation. He obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 1995. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at M.I.T. with Dr. Leonard Guarente; there, he co-discovered a cause of aging for yeast as well as the role of Sir2 in epigenetic changes driven by genome instability.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, he has been in the spotlight for his work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/nad-world-part-1\/\">NAD+ precursors and their role in aging<\/a> and has been helping to develop therapies that replace NAD+, which is lost with aging, in order to delay the diseases of old age. Below are a selection of questions and answers from the AMA, and we urge you to head over to <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/Futurology\/comments\/9qcuv0\/the_dr_david_sinclair_ama\/\">Reddit Futurology<\/a> to check out the other questions that people asked.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/david-sinclair-ama\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/david-sinclair-ama\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 23rd of this month, Dr. David Sinclair did an Ask Me Anything over at the Futurology subreddit in support of the NAD+ Mouse Project on Lifespan.io. There were a range of interesting questions from the community about his work in aging research, particularly the role of NAD+ in aging. Dr. David A. Sinclair [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83944","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=83944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83988,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83944\/revisions\/83988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}