Arlan Richardson is the Professor of Geriatric Medicine and the Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair of Aging Research at

OUHSC The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is a public medical school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is the health sciences branch of the University of Oklahoma and serves as the primary place of instruction for many of Oklahoma's health p ...

and Senior VA Career Scientist at the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center. His research interests include

Calorie Restriction Calorie restriction (caloric restriction or energy restriction) is a dietary regimen that reduces intake of energy from caloric foods & beverages without incurring malnutrition. "Reduce" can be defined relative to the subject's previous intake be ...

and Aging,

Oxidative Stress Oxidative stress reflects an imbalance between the systemic manifestation of reactive oxygen species and a biological system's ability to readily detoxify the reactive intermediates or to repair the resulting damage. Disturbances in the normal re ...

, and Molecular Biology of Aging.Homepage
/ref> He is listed in Who's Who in Gerontology and is the founder of the Barshop Institute.

Awards

* 1993: Nathan Shock Award from the Gerontology Research Center at the National Institute on Aging for "his pioneering research on the effect of dietary restriction on gene expression" * 1995: Robert W. Kleemeier Award for "outstanding research in the field of gerontology from the Gerontological Society of America" * 2001: Harman Research Award for "research contributions in the field of aging and dietary restriction from the American Aging Association"

References

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