Rejuvenation and Longevity: Introduction to Rejuvenology

Khachik K. Muradian, DSc, PhD, is Chief Scientific Researcher and leads the Group "Experimental Life Span Extension" at the Department of the Biology of Aging and Life Span Extension, Institute of Gerontology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine. Having published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, his research focuses on radical life span extension and rejuvenation and is currently working on cell and metabolic reprogramming as a tool for life span extension and treatment of age-related pathology. He is the author of the first fundamental work in the field of Life Span Prolongation. He has published over 10 book chapters on the role of apoptosis, environment, metabolism, antioxidants and induced cellular reprogramming on life span and longevity. Since 2007 he is a member of the Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity and has chaired numerous meetings relating to aging, longevity and gerontology.

Vadim E. Fraifeld, MD, PhD is Professor at the Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences. He leads the Lab for the Biology of Aging and the Research Group "Biological Determinants of Aging, Longevity, and Age-related Diseases" which includes four labs at the Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Aging, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Beer-Sheva, Israel. He is as well the Chief Scientific Researcher of the Department of Biology of Aging and Experimental Life Span Extension, Institute of Gerontology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine. He is the coordinator and lecturer of three courses on the biology of aging: Introductory, Basic, and Advanced. His major research interests focus on the systems biology of aging, longevity, and age-related diseases; cell reprogramming; cellular senescence; stem cell biology; wound healing and fibrosis. A top priority of his research interests is searching for determinants of life span and the ways of its extension and achieving healthy longevity. He has published over 90 papers and is an active editorial board member of 10 peer-reviewed journals. He was a Chief Organizer of the 8th European Congress of Biogerontology.

Since 1980s, the authors have tightly co-operated on problems of longevity, life span extension and rejuvenation.

**Khachik K. Muradian**，DSc，PhD，是烏克蘭國家醫學科學院老年學研究所生物老化與壽命延長系的首席科學研究員，並領導「實驗壽命延長」小組。他在同行評審的期刊上發表了超過100篇文章，研究重點在於激進的壽命延長和再生，目前正致力於細胞和代謝重編程作為延長壽命和治療與年齡相關病理的工具。他是壽命延長領域首部基礎性著作的作者，並已發表超過10篇書章，探討凋亡、環境、代謝、抗氧化劑及誘導性細胞重編程對壽命和長壽的影響。自2007年以來，他是Lifeboat Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity的顧問委員會成員，並主持了多次與老化、長壽和老年學相關的會議。

**Vadim E. Fraifeld**，MD，PhD，是健康科學院Shraga Segal微生物學、免疫學與遺傳學系的教授。他領導老化生物學實驗室及「老化、生長壯年及與年齡相關疾病的生物學決定因素」研究小組，該小組包括以色列內蓋夫大學（Ben-Gurion University of the Negev，BGU）老化多學科研究中心的四個實驗室。他同時也是烏克蘭國家醫學科學院老年學研究所生物老化與實驗壽命延長系的首席科學研究員。他是三門老化生物學課程的協調者和講師：入門課程、基礎課程和進階課程。他的主要研究興趣集中在老化、長壽和與年齡相關疾病的系統生物學；細胞重編程；細胞衰老；幹細胞生物學；傷口癒合和纖維化。他的研究重點之一是尋找壽命的決定因素及其延長的方法，以實現健康長壽。他已發表超過90篇論文，並是10本同行評審期刊的活躍編輯委員會成員。他曾是第八屆歐洲生物老化學會議的首席組織者。

自1980年代以來，這些作者在長壽、壽命延長和再生問題上緊密合作。