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Kelvin Davies

James E. Birren Chair in Gerontology and Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences

Contact Information
E-mail: kelvin@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-8959
Office: GER 306

 

Education
post doc. Biochemistry and Cell & Molecular Biology, Harvard Medical School
post doc. Biochemistry & Molecular Toxicology, University of Southern California
B.A. General Science, Liverpool & Lancaster Universities, 1/1974
B.S. Physiology & Biophysics, University of Wisconsin, 1/1977
M.S. Physiology & Biophysics, University of Wisconsin, 1/1977
C.Phil. Biochemistry & Physiology, University of California, Berkeley, 1/1979
Ph.D. Biochemistry & Physiology, University of California, Berkeley, 1/1981
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Davies' research centers on the role of free radicals and oxidative stress in biology. In particular he is interested in genes that repair oxidatively damaged proteins, lipids, RNA, and DNA, and his laboratory has made major contributions to our understanding of this subject over the past twenty years. At the Andrus Gerontology Center, Professor Davies is focusing his research on the regulation of oxidative stress repair genes during aging. His laboratory is involved in biochemical, molecular biology, and genetic studies of both normal aging processes, and aging pathologies such as Parkinson and Alzheimer's diseases.
 

Research Specialties
Aging and Development Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Signal Transduction and Gene Regulation
 

Honors and Awards
Doctorate honoris causa, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, Fall 2008   
Doctor of the University (honoris causae) University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1998  
CNR International Fellow, University of Ancona and University of Camerino, Italy, 1997  
Distinguished Achievement Award of The Oxygen Society, 1997  
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (F.A.A.A.S.), 1996  
Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (F.G.S.A.), 1996  
National Parkinsons Foundation Fellow, 1996  
 

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards
Editor-in-Chief, Free Radical Biology & Medicine, 1997  
 
 
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