Valter Longo Lab

Valter Longo

Dr. Longo is Senior Group Leader at IFOM, the Edna M. Jones Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences, and the Director of the Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California – Davis School of Gerontology, Los Angeles. read more

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Longevity and Cancer

Our laboratory focuses on the mechanisms of aging and their role in cancer with focus on dietary and pharmacological interventions that can prevent tumor formation but also those that maximize the differential effects of cancer therapies. read more

Laboratory location: Milan, Italy

Recent publications

Caffa I, Longo VD, Nencioni A.
Fasting plus tyrosine kinase inhibitors in cancer.
Aging (Albany NY). 2015 Dec;7(12):1026-7. PMID: 26645151
Mirzaei H, Raynes R, Longo VD.
The conserved role of protein restriction in aging and disease.
Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2016 Jan;19(1):74-9. doi: 10.1097/MCO.0000000000000239. PMID: 26560522
Hirschey MD, DeBerardinis RJ, Diehl AM, Drew JE, Frezza C, Green MF, Jones LW, Ko YH, Le A, Lea MA, Locasale JW, Longo VD, Lyssiotis CA, McDonnell E, Mehrmohamadi M, Michelotti G, Muralidhar V, Murphy MP, Pedersen PL, Poore B, Raffaghello L, Rathmell JC, Sivanand S, Vander Heiden MG, Wellen KE;
Target Validation Team. Dysregulated metabolism contributes to oncogenesis.
Semin Cancer Biol. 2015 Dec;35 Suppl:S129-50. doi: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2015.10.002. Epub 2015 Oct 8.PMID: 26454069

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