NIA Honors Pereira-Smith
Dr. Olivia M. Pereira-Smith, a professor at the Huffington Center
on Aging at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, presented the
10th annual Nathan W. Shock Memorial Lecture recently on the
campus of NIA's Gerontology Research Center in Baltimore. In her
lecture entitled "Identification of a Novel Gene Family of
Transcription-like Factors: A Role for Cell Aging," she presented a
summary of her studies on the genetic basis of cellular senescence.
She has identified genes on several chromosomes that encode
putative transcription factors that appear to regulate the ability of
cells to divide. Dr. George Roth (l)
of NIA's Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology presented her
with a plaque honoring the occasion.
Luo, Sasaki Win Poster Competition
Drs. Yongquan Luo (l) and Carl Sasaki (r), both from the
Laboratory of Immunology, NIA, were winners in the recent 4th
annual Nathan W. Shock poster competition. Luo's poster was
titled, "Gene expression analysis of young and old rat hippocampus
during T-maze learning and memory formation." Sasaki's poster on
prostate cancer research was titled, "E-cadherin induces growth
suppression by increasing p27 levels." Each scientist received a
plaque and $300.
Lakatta Shares Novartis Prize
Dr. Edward Lakatta, chief of NIA's Laboratory of Cardiovascular
Science, was recently coawarded the 1999 Novartis Prize for
Gerontological Research with Dr. Paul Baltes of the Max-Planck
Institute for Educational research in Berlin. The award was made by
the International Association of Gerontology. "The award
acknowledges the mosaic of novel information on cardiovascular
aging in health derived during the last 25 years of studies in our
labs," said Lakatta. "The mosaic, which is still not yet complete,
required substantial effort by dozens of fellows and colleagues, and
the unique environment of an intramural research program." His
research emphasizes how the cardiovascular system is altered by
aging.
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