Dr. Alexander Khalyavkin
Russia Academic Secretary of Gerontological Society of RAS (Moscow Branch)
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Biography
Dr. Alexander Khalyavkin is a Member of the Board of the Gerontological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a Senior Researcher at the Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). His Alma Mater is the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He completed his postgraduate studies at the Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology (Moscow). He defended his PhD in Biology in 1980, specializing in Immunology. He was a Lecturer of his own lecture course, "Introduction into Biogerontology", at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1991-2001). He collaborated with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (2001-2009). He is the author of the concept of potentially possible non-senescence due to vital regimens, evoked by positive environmental influences or artificial cues.
Research Interest
His Research Interests include theoretical aspects of biomedicine, biogerontology and biodemography. He has developed approaches to understanding some aspects of the regulation of normal and malignant cell proliferation. He contributed to the development of the concept of the non-canonical (growth control) function of the immune system and to understanding the mechanism of switching symmetrical mitosis to asymmetrical one in stem cells.