Not exact matches
A better understanding of fly behaviors will
translate to a better understanding of
human biology and diseases.
Founded by Paul F. Glenn in 1965, the mission of the Glenn Foundation For Medical Research is
to extend the healthy years of life through research on mechanisms of
biology that govern normal
human aging and its related physiological decline, with the objective of
translating research into interventions that will extend healthspan with lifespan.
«Findings in populations are generally robust and
translate well across cohorts and species — making the data directly relevant
to human biology,» says Li.
My goal is
to contribute
to the resolution of this important problem by bringing
to bear recent advances in
human genetics and integrative genomics and
translating them in a mechanistic, systems - level understanding of disease that is rooted in
human biology but also actionable from a drug development perspective.
One day, Bargmann wrote, «[T] hose of us who study worms hope
to meet those who study
human brains in the middle, using the universality of
biology to translate understanding across organisms.»