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Grantee in the News: Eric Lieberman Greer's research on Translational Epigenetic Inheritance of Longevity in PLOS Genetics

On July 8, 2019, PLOS Genetics published research co-authored by Eric Lieberman Greer, PhD, on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of longevity.


Dr. Greer is a 2016 AFAR Research Grant recipient. This funding supported the published research. He is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.


Read the research, “The demethylase NMAD-1 regulates DNA replication and repair in the Caenorhabditis elegans germline,” here.

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