Dr. Judith Campisi Lecture "Aging and Cancer: Rival Demons?"
Dr. Judith Campisi
Center for Research and Education on Aging, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Professor, Buck Institute for Age Research
The Campisi lab strives to understand fundamental aspects of the
aging process, and the evolutionary, cellular and molecular
relationships between aging, tumor suppressor mechanisms and the
development of cancer. The laboratory also studies nuclear
structures such as telomeres, and nuclear processes such as DNA
repair and transcription, to understand how genetic and epigenetic
damage leads to aging and cancer phenotypes. A recent focus
of the Campisi is to identify links between DNA damage responses
and inflammation, which is a major risk factor for the development
of aging phenotypes and age-related diseases.