Areas of Specialty:

• Gerotherapeutics

• Aging, metabolism and diet

• Animal Models for aging

Derek Huffman, PhD

Dr. Huffman is Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Medicine and the Lotti and Bernard Benson Faculty Scholar in Alzheimer's Disease at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He has served as a Co-Director of the Einstein Nathan Shock Center, Director of the Health Span Interventions Testing Core and Co-Director of the Einstein NIA T32 Training Grant. He received his B.S. and M.A. in Exercise Physiology from the University of Missouri-Columbia and his PhD in Nutrition at the University of Alabama at Birmingham working on the role of energetics in aging and disease. He then completed his Postdoctoral fellowship at Albert Einstein with Nir Barzilai and was the recipient of an NIA K99/R00 award focused on the role of IGF-1 signaling in aging and disease. Dr. Huffman subsequently joined the Einstein faculty in 2013 where his research has been focused mainly on: 1) aging-metabolism interplay, 2) gerotherapeutic interventions, 3) cell autonomous and cell non-autonomous drivers of aging, and 4) applying geroscience to unravel mechanisms and treatments for AD. Dr. Huffman has been continuously funded by NIA and has also received support from the American Federation for Aging Research and most recently, the Hevolution Foundation. He is also an Associate Editor at Geroscience, the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and serves on the Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) Steering Committee.