Michael Fossel
American scientist and physician
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Michael B. Fossel (born 1950) is an American biogerontologist. He taught clinical medicine at Michigan State University. Fossel has written four book on aging and was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine.
1950 or 1951 (age 75–76)[1]
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| Born | Michael B. Fossel 1950 or 1951 (age 75–76)[1] Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
Early life and education
Fossel was born in 1950.[1] He attended Phillips Exeter Academy. He earned a bachelor of arts and a master of arts in psychology from Wesleyan University[2] and a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Stanford University.[1][2] He also earned an M.D. from Stanford Medical School.[2]
Career
Fossel taught at Stanford University from 1978 to 1981, he was a professor of clinical medicine at Michigan State University[1][3] from 1985 to 2012, and at Grand Valley State University[1][3] as well as lecturing at the National Institute for Health, the Smithsonian Institution, and as a guest lecturer at other universities nationally and internationally.
Fossel practiced emergency medicine at St Mary's Hospital in Grand Rapids.[3][1]
He served on the board of directors, and was for a time the executive director, of the American Aging Association.
He has written a number of books on aging, including Reversing Human Aging (1996).[1][3] He has also written numerous articles and book chapters on aging, age-related disease and ethics. He was also the editor of the Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine.[1]
His research focus is on premature aging syndromes such as progeria. He is an advocate of telomerase therapy as a potential treatment of age-related diseases, disorders,[2] and syndromes.
Critical reception
- Reversing Human Aging reviewed by Scientific American.
- The Telomerase Revolution reviewed by the Wall Street Journal and The Times (London).
Works
- Cells, Aging, and Human Disease (2004) Oxford University Press.
- The Telomerase Revolution.