Understanding the mechanisms of disease onset and progression and to inform new strategies for diagnosis and treatment. This includes diseases that become more frequent with age such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, Type 2 diabetes, and respiratory diseases.
Members
Meet faculty members and trainees in this research area:
Murphy, Rachel
Associate Director, Research and Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health; BC Cancer Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine
Pouladi, Mahmoud
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine
Schaffner, Samantha
Postdoctoral Fellow, Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging, Faculty of Medicine