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The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), a national, nonprofit whose mission is to advance and support healthy aging through biomedical research, announced the election of Thomas A. Rando, MD, PhD, as President of the Board of Directors in December 2023.
A new study in Cell Stem Cell led by Dr. Thomas Rando and his colleagues Dr. Anne Brunet of Stanford University and Dr. Margaret Goodell of Baylor College of Medicine sheds light on how aging changes different types of stem cells at the molecular level – and how exercise can reverse this process.
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) will award its 2023 ISSCR Achievement Award to Thomas A. Rando, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research and professor of Neurology and of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, UCLA, USA. The prize recognizes the transformative body of work of an investigator that has had a major impact on the field of stem cell research or regenerative medicine. He will present his research on 17 June 2023 during Plenary VII at ISSCR 2023 Boston + Virtual, the world’s leading gathering of the brightest minds in stem cell research and regenerative medicine.
Recognizing their outstanding contributions to the advancement of science and human progress through their pioneering, innovative and collaborative research, the 2022 NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award was presented to Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Cambridge and to Thomas A. Rando of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) at a ceremony held at the Kongresshaus Zurich on Oct. 6, 2022.
Dr. Thomas Rando, a renowned neurologist and stem cell biologist, has been named director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA.