About
Ana Maria Cuervo is a physician-scientist and aging-biology researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she is a distinguished professor and co-director of the Einstein Institute for Aging Research. She is best known for pioneering work on chaperone-mediated autophagy and its role in aging, neurodegeneration, and metabolic disease. She has also been publicly associated with Life Biosciences as a founder scientist translating her aging research toward therapeutics.
Areas of interest
longevityaging biologyautophagyneurodegenerationmetabolic disorderscellular quality controlbiotech