Best-known for lifespan extension, dietary restriction produces two equally tangible benefits: improved healthspan and increased resistance to acute stress. Dietary restriction comprises a variety of feeding regimes focused either on reducing total calorie intake (calorie restriction) or enforced periods of fasting between meals (intermittent...
Senior and New Scholars Awards for Harvard School of Public Health
Dr. James R. Mitchell
Harvard School of Public Health
2008 new Scholar Award in aging
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Dr. Megan B. Murray
Harvard School of Public Health
2004 senior Scholar Award in gid
Tuberculosis remains one of the leading causes of death in the world and is rivaled only by HIV as the single leading cause of death from an infectious agent. Although it had been in decline in Europe and the United States for much of the 20th century, TB has remained widely prevalent through much of the developing world, with a current... |
Marc Lipsitch
Harvard School of Public Health
2002 new Scholar Award in gid
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of otitis media (middle ear infections), bacteremia (blood infection), pneumonia, and meningitis in both developed and developing countries. Extensive use of antibiotics has led to worldwide increases in the proportion of strains of... |
Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher
Harvard School of Public Health
Arming the Immune System against Pathogens with Selective Biologics: The Next Generation of Vaccines
2002 senior Scholar Award in gid
An effective immune response against infectious agents must be both of appropriate magnitude and type. Type 1 immunity relies on a type of T lymphocyte that induces both inflammatory and cytotoxic responses essential for destruction of intracellular pathogens such as tuberculosis. Generation of Type 2 immunity requires development of another type...
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