Singapore, Jan 12, 2010: Nu Skin Enterprises, a premier anti-aging company, announced Dr Stuart Kim, professor at Stanford University in the departments of Developmental Biology and Genetics, as a new member of the Nu Skin Anti-Aging Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Kim will provide insights on the molecular analysis of aging science.
Dr Joseph Chang, Nu Skin chief scientific officer and executive vice president of product development, Nu Skin Enterprises said, "Dr. Kim has spent much of his career studying the genetic basis of aging and has garnered significant attention in the scientific community related to his identification of an important gene that could play a critical role in aging. This important work will add to the further understanding of the molecular mechanism by which certain proteins regulate aging."
Kim received bachelors' degrees in chemistry and philosophy from Dartmouth College in 1979. Dr. Kim then moved to biology at Caltech and received a doctorate in 1984. He spent five years as a post-doctoral fellow at MIT and is currently a professor in the departments of Developmental Biology and Genetics at Stanford University, as well as a faculty affiliate to the Stanford Center on Longevity.
Kim's recent research interests have focused on functional genomics and systems biology. He has produced DNA microarrays for C. elegans and used them to profile gene expression during development and aging. He has also assembled large sets of data from microarray experiments, and used them to find sets of co-regulated genes acting as genetic modules. His developmental drift theory of aging has been published in the scientific journal Cell. Before working on functional genomics, Kim worked on cell polarity in epithelial cells and Ras signaling in C. elegans.
Dr. Kim has been a Markey Scholar, a Searle Scholar and an Ellison Scholar for his research on the genetics of aging. He is an editor of PLOS Genetics, on the National Science Advisory Council for the American Federation for Aging Research and the Scientific Advisory Board for the Buck Institute for Age Research.
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