Vadim Gladyshev

Vadim N Gladyshev is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School Director of the Center for Redox Medicine at Brigham and Womens Hospital and faculty member of the Broad Institute Dr Gladyshevs lab focuses on studying aging rejuvenation and lifespan control using a combination of experimental and computational approaches He has published more than 450 articles Dr Gladyshev is the recipient of NIH Pioneer Transformative and Eureka awards and is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences USA Gladyshev is known for his characterization of the human selenoproteome He has studied the process of how organisms can acquire cellular damage from their food and the role selenium plays as a micronutrient with significant health benefits In 2013 he won the National Institutes of Health Pioneer Award Gladyshev obtained his education at MSU He completed his postdoctoral training under Dr Thressa Stadtman of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute NHLBI National Institutes of Health NIH and then with the Dolph L Hatfield National Cancer Institute NCI