Biology of Aging Program (BAP)

The Leonard Davis School of Gerontology along with various departments at USC offers undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral training programs in the Biology of Aging that combine biomedical research focused on aging with courses in biogerontology, molecular and computational biology, biochemistry, genetics, cell biology, and neurobiology. The USC Biology of Aging Program faculty is one of the largest in the country and includes internationally recognized scientists studying the fundamental mechanisms of aging as well as diseases including Alzheimer, Parkinson, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, Werner and Bloom syndromes. The understanding and treatment of diseases is approached both traditionally and by novel evolutionary approaches aimed at identifying genes and molecular pathways that can be modulated to prevent diseases. Fellowships from two NIH training grants are available to students and postdoctoral fellows accepted by laboratories in the MBAP.