Special Interviews ~The 10th Anniversary of Sirtuin Biology~

Special Joint Interview:The Past and The Next Ten Years of Sirtuin Research

Shin-ichiro Imai, M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine

Leonard P. Guarente, Ph.D.

Paul F. Glenn Laboratory for the Science of aging, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Shin-ichiro Imai, M.D., Ph.D. Photograph

Shin-ichiro Imai, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine

Leonard P. Guarente, Ph.D. Photograph

Leonard P. Guarente, Ph.D.

  • Paul F. Glenn Laboratory for the Science of aging, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

As a world leader in aging research, Dr. Guarente has been revealing the relationship between aging and sirtuins and producing more than 190 scientific papers. He has also mentored many great scientists who are now leading authorities in many different institutions. Dr. Imai has also been fascinated with aging science for more than 20 years and recently trying to understand the systemic regulation of aging and longevity through his concept of the NAD World. Drs. Guarente and Imai have made a phenomenal discovery of sirtuins’ NAD-dependent deacetylase activity in 2000, which has opened a new arena of aging research.

In this interview, Drs. Guarente and Imai talk about the history of their aging science and sirtuin research, important connections between sirtuins and brain function, and their visions of next ten years of sirtuin biology.

Interviewer:Shuji Hachisuka(Editor of Experimental Medicine, Yodosha,co., Ltd.) , Chihiro Sato, Ph.D. (Washington University School of Medicine)

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  • [DIGEST] The Past and The Next Ten Years of Sirtuin Research
  • Shin-ichiro Imai, M.D., Ph.D., Leonard P. Guarente, Ph.D.
  • 6:57 [November 22nd, 2010]
  • [1] The development of sirtuin research in the past decade
  • Shin-ichiro Imai, M.D., Ph.D., Leonard P. Guarente, Ph.D.
  • 10:24 [November 22nd, 2010]
  • Challenges in aging science: From cellular aging to organismal aging[3:17]/The serendipitous discovery of sirtuin function[6:27]
  • [2] The novel functions of sirtuins in the brain and the next milestone in sirtuin biology
  • Shin-ichiro Imai, M.D., Ph.D., Leonard P. Guarente, Ph.D.
  • 9:26 [November 30th, 2010]
  • The novel functions of sirtuins in the brain[4:55]/The visions on the next ten years of sirtuin research[3:51]
  • [3] Opening new paradigms of science
  • Shin-ichiro Imai, M.D., Ph.D., Leonard P. Guarente, Ph.D.
  • 9:07 [December 7th, 2010]
  • Training young talented researchers as a mentor[2:42]/Enjoying science to overcome difficulties[3:04]/Messages for young scientists[2:42]
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