College of Medicine - Phoenix, Department of Translational Neurosciences
When
Where
Health Sciences Education Building, Room B202
435 N. 5th St., Phoenix, AZ 85004
Event Description
The Department of Translational Neurosciences introduces it's Spring 2025 Seminar Series, a monthly lecture series covering diverse topics in neuroscience. This month's featured speaker is Matt Huentelman, PhD, professor and co-director of the Early Detection and Prevention Division at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), who will deliver a talk titled "Internet- and mobile lab-based approaches for the study of cognition: Scale and diversity to empower precision aging."
This seminar is hybrid.
Presenter Details
Matt Huentelman, PhD
Professor and Co-Director of the Early Detection and Prevention Division
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Phoenix AZ
Huentelman focuses his research on understanding the molecular aspects of the human nervous system in health and disease. His primary objective is to tailor medical approaches to aging, with a special emphasis on maintaining brain health. This innovative strategy, known as "Precision Aging," aims to align cognitive health span with lifespan, significantly reducing the impact of age-related brain diseases on society.
Huentelman joined TGen in July 2004 after completing his doctoral work at the University of Florida's Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics at the McKnight Brain Institute. His undergraduate degree is from Ohio University's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Clippinger Laboratories. His career includes visiting researcher fellowships in Moscow, Russia at the MV Lomonosov Moscow State University Biology Faculty and in the United Kingdom at the University of Bristol’s Department of Physiology. His research is/was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Arizona Community Foundation, the Institute for Mental Health Research, Science Foundation Arizona, the Flinn Foundation, and the American Heart Association. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts since 1998 which have been cited over 35,000 times by his peers.