Mair Lab
The Mair lab investigates why aging increases susceptibility to chronic diseases. We explore how nutrition and environment affect aging rates, noting benefits of fasting and reduced food intake in extending health span across species. We study genetic pathways linking metabolism and aging, aiming to replicate benefits of dietary restriction without its drawbacks. Our research spans from yeast to humans, leveraging evolutionary conservation to understand and potentially mitigate human aging processes.
665 Huntington Avenue
Building 1, Room 509
Boston, MA 02115
Meet Our Team
Dr. Mair is a Professor of Molecular Metabolism at Harvard and Director of the Harvard T.H. Chan Healthy Aging Initiative. As Director, he leads a multidisciplinary effort to extend human healthspan by identifying the drivers of age-related disease and developing interventions to help people worldwide spend more years in good health.
He received his BSc in Genetics and PhD in Biology from University College London, and completed his postdoctoral training at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA. The Mair lab studies mechanisms that mitigate the risks of aging, focusing on metabolism and how changes to food intake impact the aging process. They are defining how nutrient and energy sensors in cells become dysfunctional with age, leading to metabolic inflexibility and accelerated aging. Dr. Mair’s work aims to develop therapeutics that maintain healthy metabolic function, thereby enabling our bodies to process food effectively as we age.
Dr. Mair has won numerous awards for his work on aging and geroscience, including the American Federation Breakthrough in Gerontology Award, the Glenn Medical Foundation for Medical Research Scholar Award, and the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging Research Award. He is co-founding director of the MBL Biology of Aging Summer Research Course, and organizes several international conferences on geroscience and aging biology.
Lab Manager
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Assistant
Lab Lab
Lab Alumni
Arpit Sharma
Postdoctoral Fellow
Peter Stine
Lab Assistant
Miriam Valera-Alberni
Postdoctoral Fellow
Maria Perez Matos
Graduate Student
Hannah Smith
Graduate Student
Ewelina Nowak
Graduate Student
Noel Jackson
Graduate Student
Carlos Silva Garcia
Visiting Scientist
Carlos Vergani
Visiting Graduate Student
Lourdes Pajuelo
Postbaccalaureate Student
Pallas Yao
Graduate Student
Laura Wester
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sam Lapp
Graduate Student
Vanessa Laversenne
Postdoctoral Fellow
Caroline Heintz
Research Associate
Sneha Dutta
Graduate Student
Andrew Larocque
Lab Assistant
Malini Bhadra
Postdoctoral Fellow
Porsha Howell
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dana Fleischhauer
Visiting Graduate Student
Pallavi Joshi
Rotation Student
Rohan Sehgal
Research Assistant
Kristopher Burkewitz
Charles A. King Trust Postdoctoral Fellow
Roy Chowdhury
Postdoctoral Fellow
Emina Tabakovic
Research Assistant
Nicole Clark
Research Assistant
Caroline Escoubas
Graduate Student
Yue Zhang
Graduate Student
Alex Plesa
Rotation Student
Anita Reddy
Rotation Student
Heather Weir
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ryann Guayasamin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Obichi Onwukwe
Undergraduate Summer Student
Sydney Brumfield
Undergraduate Researcher
Iris Lee
Visiting Masters Student
Zhouwei Zhang
BPH Rotation Student
Juan Ramirez
Undergraduate Researcher
Kaitlyn Izzo
Undergraduate Researcher
Ibrahim Kurt
BPH Rotation Student
Staci Thornton
Undergraduate Summer Student
Raymond A. Laboy Morales
Undergraduate Summer Student
Ianessa Morantte
Research Specialist/Lab Manager
Jim Valcourt
BBS Rotation Student
Joseph Beyene
BPH Rotation Student
Robin Yeo
Research Assistant
Jee Yun Kim
Undergraduate Summer Student
Ana Paula Morales Allende
Undergraduate Summer Student
Elissa Lin
Undergraduate Summer Student
Kasia Baranowski
BPH Rotation Student
Tinatini Tavhelidse
Visiting Masters Student
How to join the Lab
How to join the Lab
We are often looking for new Mair Lab members, if you are interested in joining our lab family, please email your CV to William at wmair@hsph-harvard-edu.
Common positions include: Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Assistant, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Summer Intern.