Rochelle Buffenstein
Rochelle Buffenstein is an American comparative biologist currently working as
Research Professor at the
University of Illinois Chicago. Previously, she was a senior principal investigator at
Calico Life Sciences, an
Alphabet, Inc. funded research and development company investigating the biology that controls
aging and
lifespan where she used the extraordinarily long-lived
cancer resistant
naked mole-rat as an attractive counter-example to the inevitability of mammalian aging; for at ages greatly exceeding the expected maximum longevity for this mouse-sized rodent, they fail to exhibit meaningful changes in age-related risk of
dying or
physiological decline. As such these
rodents likely provide the blueprint for how to stave off myriad adverse effects of aging and provide proof of concept that age-related health decline can be avoided in humans.
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