Rita B. Effros, PhD, of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has been installed as the new president of The Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the nation’s largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging. She was elected by GSA’s membership, which consists of over 5,500 researchers, educators, practitioners, and other professionals.
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“It is indeed an honor and a privilege to help … increase awareness of the general public and our elected officials regarding the multiple facets of aging,” Effros said.
At UCLA, she is a professor of pathology & laboratory medicine within the David Geffen School of Medicine where she was one of the first investigators to document similarities between age-related immune alterations and those associated with HIV/AIDS, an area that is becoming increasingly important with the prolonged survival of HIV-infected persons.
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