The payoff against an increase in life span has been than health span does not necessarily follow suit, says Helen Griffiths, Aston University’s Professor in Biomedical Sciences and Acting Director of Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing.
Before, many people died suddenly from infection. Nowadays, however, women will typically experience the last 9.1 with chronic, debilitating illness, and men 6.8 years. But the routes to solve the puzzle of ageing are being mapped.
Professor Griffiths’ research interests are proteomic approaches to biomarker determination, and the interplay between lips/sphingolipids and reactive oxygen spaces in inflammataion and ageing.
She won the 1st Catherine Pasquier Prize from the European Society for Free Radical Research, and the Aston Excellence Award in 2009 for Outstanding Researcher of the Year.
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