Dr. Jerry Shay to speak at Undoing Aging 2019

Mountain View, CA / Berlin, Germany

After the incredible success of the 2018 Undoing Aging Conference earlier this year, we are getting closer to Undoing Aging 2019 and are looking forward to another brilliant get together in March 2019 with scientists from around the globe, who are leading the charge in maintaining and restoring full health in old age.

Today we are happy to begin introducing the speakers for Undoing Aging 2019, starting with Dr. Jerry Shay.
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Jerry W. Shay is the Vice Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He is also the Associate Director of the Harold Simmon's NCI Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, and holds the Southland Corporation Distinguished Chair in Geriatrics Research. He holds the title of Distinguish Teaching Professor. In 2012 he was awarded a University of Texas Regent’s Outstanding Teaching Award, in 2013 the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Professor Award and in 2015 the Distinguished Basic Science Educator Award.
 
Dr. Shay’s seminal work on the relationships of telomeres and telomerase to aging and cancer is well recognized. Dr. Shay received the AlliedSignal Award, the Ted Nash Foundation Award, the American Association of Aging Hayflick Award, an Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar Award, and in 2017 Dr. Shay received the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NIH Alliance Pioneer Award.


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