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After receiving his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Cordoba, Spain, Dr. de Cabo earned his Ph.D. in 2000 from the Department of Foods and Nutrition at Purdue University. Upon completing his graduate education, he received a postdoctoral position in the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2004, he was appointed as a tenure-track investigator in the Laboratory of Experimental Gerontology. He is now a senior investigator and Chief of the Translational Gerontology Branch at NIA. His research has focused on the effects of nutritional interventions on basic mechanisms of aging and age-related diseases and on improving our understanding of the molecular mechanisms for the effects of caloric restriction on aging and pharmacological interventions for healthy aging. Ultimately his research aims to identify interventions that will improve healthspan and lifespan with translational potential to benefit human aging. He is the author or co-author of 350 publications on aging including the leading journals in the world including New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Nature Medicine, Science, Cell, Cell Metabolism, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. A search of his works indicates that his papers have been cited over 50,000 times and he has an h index of 112. Dr. de Cabo's honors and awards include the American Federation for Aging Research Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction (2023), the Denham Harman Award (2023) of the American Aging Association, Purdue University Diamond Award, Department of Foods and Nutrition (2016), AFAR's Vince Cristofalo Rising Star Award (2014), Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (2010), Nathan Shock New Investigator Award of the Gerontological Society of America (2006), Paul E. Glenn Award for Meritorious Research from The American Aging Association. Dr de Cabo is Deputy Editor in Chief, the Journal of Gerontology Biological Sciences and serves on the editorial boards of Aging Cell, BBA-Molecular Mechanisms of Disease, Aging Research Reviews, Longevity & Healthspan, Impact Aging, AGE and is one of the founding editors of Microbial Cell.

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