Dr. Natalia S. Gavrilova

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University of Chicago
NORC
Center on Aging
Research AssociateAppointed: 1997
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Mailing Address

1155 East 60th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (773) 256-6359
Fax: (773) 256-6313
gavrilova@longevity-science.org
http://longevity-science.org/

Qualifications

M.Sc., University of Chicago, Computer Science, 2003.
Ph.D., Moscow State University, Anthropology, 1982.
M.Sc., Moscow State University, Chemistry, 1977.

Other Expertise

Referee (Peer Reviewer):
Journal of Gerontology, Experimental Gerontology, Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, Demography, Population, Population and Development Review, Social Biology, European Journal of Population, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Biogerontology, Genus, Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine, electronic journal 'TheScientificWorld'.

Consultant for the National Institute on Aging:
National Institutes of Health Professional Service Contract #263 SDN74858 'Inventory of data resources on familial aggregation of human longevity that can be used in secondary analysis in biodemography of aging', 35pp. Submitted to NIA on 05/29/98.

Book Reviewer:
Population and Development Review.

Other Qualifications:
Database Design, Management andProgramming;
Statistical Packages (SAS, SPSS, Stata, S-Plus).

Invited presentations:
National Institutes of Health (2002); Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Germany (2002); INSERM, Montpellier, France (1999); Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany (1999); Bowling Green State University, Ohio (1999); Department of Demography at the Rome University, Italy [Dipartrimento di Scienze Demografiche, Roma, Università 'La Sapienza'] (1998); Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, (1998, 1997, 1995), Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MA (1998); Center for Gerontology Research, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Philadelphia, PA (1997); University of Washington, Seattle, WA (1997); Aeiveos Sciences Group, Seattle, WA (1997); Institute on Aging, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (1997); Center on Aging, NORC/University of Chicago, IL (1997); Iowa State University, Ames (1997); Gerontology Center of the University ofGeorgia, Athens, GA (1997); Institute of HeartMath, Boulder Creek, CA (1997); Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague, TheNetherlands (1995); Sussex University, Brighton, UK (1995).

Industrial Relevance

My research work has mostly scientific and educational significance.

We have developed a teaching course 'Biodemography of Human Mortality and Longevity' available at:
http://longevity-science.org/syllabus.html

We have also developed a scientific and educational website on human longevity studies, which contains useful resources for scientists, teachers and students:

Website title:
Longevity Science: Unraveling the Secrets of Human Longevity & Aging

Website URL:
http://longevity-science.org/

Website Description:
This web site represents research efforts aimed to understand the mechanisms of aging and longevity in order to extend healthy and productive human lifespan

Key words:
Longevity, human longevity, lifespan, life span, life extension, aging, ageing, anti-aging, anti-aging medicine, gerontology, senescence, health, scientific news, free articles, women studies, astrology testing, scientific books, mortality, biodemography, demography, reliability, reliability theory, season of birth, parental age, biology, human biology, theoretical biology, mutation, evolution, sex, epidemiology, longevity studies, NIA, Center on Aging, NORC, University of Chicago, population, National Institute on Aging, immortality, centenarians, biogerontology, seasonality, Death or Mortality; Demography; Epidemiology; Genetics; Gerontology; Mathematical Modeling; Aging; Aging; Anti-aging; Anti-aging Medicine; Biodemography; Biodemography of Human Longevity; Biogerontology; Biology; Biology of Life Span; Centenarians; Demography; Early-life Predictors of Longevity; Epidemiology; Evolution; Evolutionary Theories; Evolutionary Theories of Aging; Genetic Epidemiology; Gerontology; Gompertz Law; Human Biology; Human Longevity; Immortality; Life Extension; Life Span; Lifespan; Longevity; Longevity Predictors; Longevity Studies; Mechanisms of Aging; Mortality; Mutations; Parental Age; Parental Age Effects; Paternal Age; Reliability; Reliability Theory; Reliability Theoryof Aging; Season of Birth; Seasonal Effects; Senescence; Sex; Sex Differences; Survival; Theoretical Biology

I hope that my research work may help to postpone, to prevent, or even to reverse some unpleasant manifestations of aging.


Keywords

COS Keywords:

Anthropology, Computer and Information Sciences, Database Management, Demography, Former Soviet Union, Gerontology, Internet or World Wide Web (WWW), Population Sciences, Radiobiology, Russia.

Additional Terms:

Aging, Biodemography of Aging, Demography, Genealogy, Gerontology, Lifespan, Longevity, Medical Demography, Mortality, Mortality in Russia, Radiobiology.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

Russian: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)

Memberships

Gerontological Society of America
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
Population Association of America
Russian Academy of Sciences
Social Science History Association

Honors and Awards

1996, Proposal Development Program Award, Civilian Research and Development Foundation
1994, Emergency Award for Russian Scientists of the Top Category, International Science Foundation
1993, Certificate of Honor, International Association of Gerontology
1993, Emergency Grant Award, International Science Foundation
1991, Award for the best scientific research, A.N.Belozersky Institute, Moscow State University
1989, Award for the best scientific research in natural sciences, Moscow Society of Naturalists

Previous Positions

1987-1993, Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Medical Information
1983-1987, Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Medical Information
1981-1982, Research Scientist, Institute of General Genetics, USSR Academy of Sciences

Funding Received

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): 'Biodemographic aspects of longevity inheritance in humans', Sep 30, 1998 to Aug 31, 1999.
  • Center on Aging: 'Biodemographic aspects of longevity inheritance in humans.', Apr 2000 to May 2001.
  • European Union: 'The Mechanisms of Human Longevity, an Association of Parental Characteristics and Longevity of Their Children'., 1995 to 1997.
  • International Science Foundation: 'Biomedical Basis of the Sex Differential in Human Lifespan', 1994 to 1995.

Publications

  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, Early-life programming of aging and longevity: the idea of high initial damage load (the HIDL hypothesis), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1019, 496-501, Jun 2004 Abstract
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, The reliability-engineering approach to the problem of biological aging, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1019, 509-12, Jun 2004 Abstract
  • Gavrilova NS, Gavrilov LA, Semyonova VG, Evdokushkina GN, Does exceptional human longevity come with a high cost of infertility? Testing the evolutionary theories of aging, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1019, 513-7, Jun 2004 Abstract
  • Gavrilova N., Gavrilov L., Evdokushkina G., Semyonova V., Are long-lived women more prone to infertility?: Testing the prediction of evolutionary theories of aging, Gerontologist, 43 (Sp. issue), 9-9., October 2003
  • Gavrilov L., Gavrilova N., Semyonova V., Evdokushkina G., Early-life seasonal programming of human longevity, Gerontologist, 43 (Sp. issue), 582-582., October 2003
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, (2003), Early-Life Programming of Aging and Longevity: The Idea of High Initial Damage Load (the HIDL Hypothesis). Biogerontology, 4(Suppl. 1), 34-34, 19 Sep 2003
  • Gavrilova NS, Gavrilov LA, Semyonova VG, Evdokushkina GN, (2003), Does Exceptional Human Longevity Come With High Cost of Infertility? Testing the Evolutionary Theories of Aging.Biogerontology, 4(Suppl.1), 35-35, 19 Sep 2003
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, (2003), Reliability-Engineering Approach to the Problem of Biological Aging. Biogerontology, 4(Suppl. 1), 34-35, 19 Sep 2003
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, (2003), The quest for a general theory of aging and longevity. Sci Aging Knowledge Environment, 2003(28), RE5, 01 Jul 2003
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, The quest for a general theory of aging and longevity, Science of Aging Knowledge Environment [electronic Resource] : Sage Ke, 2003(28), RE5, Jul 2003 Abstract
  • Gavrilov, L.A., Gavrilova, N.S., Evdokushkina, G. N., Semyonova, V.G., Early-life predictors of human longevity: Analysis of the 19th Century birth cohorts, Annales de démographie historiques, 2, 2003
  • Gavrilov, L.A., Gavrilova, N.S., (2003), Early-life factors modulating lifespan . In: Rattan, S.I.S. (Ed.). Biology of Aging and its Modulation. Vol. 5: Modulating Aging and Longevity. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, T, 24 pages, 01 Jan 2003
  • Carnes BA, Gavrilova N, Grahn D, (2002), Pathology effects at radiation doses below those causing increased mortality. Radiation Research, 158(2), 187-94, 01 Aug 2002
  • Carnes BA, Gavrilova N, Grahn D, Pathology effects at radiation doses below those causing increased mortality, Radiation Research, 158(2), 187-94, Aug 2002 Abstract
  • Gavrilov L.A., Gavrilova N.S., (2002), The quest for the theory of human longevity. The Actuary, 36(5), 10-13, 01 May 2002
  • Gavrilov, L.A., Gavrilova, N.S., (2002), Evolutionary theories of aging and longevity. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL, http://www.thescientificworld.com/, 2, 339-356, 07 Feb 2002
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, Evolutionary theories of aging and longevity, Thescientificworldjournal [electronic Resource], 2, 339-56, Feb 2002 Abstract
  • Gavrilov L.A., Gavrilova N.S., Olshansky S.J., Carnes B.A., (2002), Genealogical data and biodemography of human longevity . Social Biology, 49(1-2), 120-133, 01 Jan 2002
  • Gavrilov, L.A., Gavrilova, N.S., (2002), Genetics. In: David J. Ekerdt (ed.) Encyclopedia of Aging, New York, Macmillan Reference USA, 2, 536-538, 01 Jan 2002
  • Gavrilova, N.S., Gavrilov, L.A., (2002), Genetics: Ethnicity. In: David J. Ekerdt (ed.) Encyclopedia of Aging, New York, Macmillan Reference USA, 2, 538-539, 01 Jan 2002
  • Ivanova A.E., Semyonova V.G., Gavrilova N.S., Evdokushkina G.N., Gavrilov L.A., Demchenko T.A., Mortality patterns of the Russian population in the 1990s and potential for mortality decline: dynamics and prognosis, Disease Prevention and Health Promotion , 3, 9-19, 2002
  • Semyonova V.G., Ivanova A.E., Gavrilova N.S., Evdokushkina G.N., Gavrilov L.A., Devichenskaya M.N., Medico-demographic conditions in urban and rural areas – similarity and differences, Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 5, 8-14, 2002
  • Gavrilov L.A., Gavrilova N.S., Bio-reliability theory of aging and longevity, Gerontologist, 42(Sp. issue), 7-7, 2002
  • Gavrilova N.S., Gavrilov L.A., Mechanism of inheritance of human longevity: Paradox resolved, Gerontologist, 42(Sp. issue), 7-7, 2002
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, Olshansky SJ, Carnes BA, Genealogical data and the biodemography of human longevity, Social Biology, 49(3-4), 160-73, Fall- 2002 Abstract
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, (2001), The reliability theory of aging and longevity. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 213(4), 527-45, 01 Dec 2001
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, The reliability theory of aging and longevity, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 213(4), 527-45, Dec 2001 Abstract
  • Carnes BA, Gavrilova N, (2001), Risk analysis: divergent models and convergent interpretations. Radiation Research, 156(5 Pt 2), 628-30, 01 Nov 2001
  • Carnes BA, Gavrilova N, Risk analysis: divergent models and convergent interpretations, Radiation Research, 156(5 Pt 2), 628-30, Nov 2001 Abstract
  • Gavrilov L.A., Gavrilova N.S., (2001), Epidemiology of human longevity: The search for appropriate methodology. Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine, 4(1), 13-30, 01 Jan 2001
  • Gavrilov, L.A., Gavrilova, N.S, (2001), Biodemographic study of familial determinants of human longevity. Population: An English Selection, 13(1), 197-222, 01 Jan 2001
  • Gavrilova, N.S., Gavrilov, L.A, (2001), When does human longevity start? Demarcation of the boundaries for human longevity. Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine, 4(2), 115-124, 01 Jan 2001
  • Gavrilov, L.A., Gavrilova, N.S., Etude biodemographique des determinants familiaux de la longevite, Population [In French], 56(1-2), 225-252, 2001
  • Gavrilova, N.S., Gavrilov, L.A., Evdokushkina, G.N., Semyonova, V.G., Study of the inheritance of human longevity, Gerontology, 47(Suppl.1), 611-611, 2001
  • Gavrilov L.A., Gavrilova N.S., Evdokushkina, G.N., Semyonova, V.G., Parental age effects on human longevity, Gerontology, 47(Suppl.1), 611-611, 2001
  • Gavrilov L.A., Gavrilova N.S, (2001), The effects of early-life events on adult lifespan are sex-specific [Meeting Abstract]. Gerontologist, 41(Sp. issue), 163-163, 01 Jan 2001
  • Gavrilova, N.S., Gavrilov, L.A, (2001), Consanguinity and human longevity: Findings from the International Centenarian Study [Meeting Abstract]. Gerontologist, 41(Sp. issue), 87-87., 01 Jan 2001
  • Gavrilova, N.S., Semyonova, V.G., Evdokushkina G.N., Gavrilov, L.A., (200), The response of violent mortality to economic crisis in Russia. Population Research and Policy Review, 19, 397-419, 01 Jan 2000
  • Gavrilov, L.A., Gavrilova, N.S., (2000), Human longevity and parental age at conception. In: J.-M.Robine et al. (eds.) Sex and Longevity: Sexuality, Gender, Reproduction, Parenthood, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 7-31, 01 Jan 2000
  • Gavrilov, L.A., Gavrilova, N.S., (2000), Validation of exceptional longevity. Population and Development Review, 26(2), 40-41, 01 Jan 2000
  • Gavrilov L.A., Gavrilova N.S., Evdokushkina, G.N., Semyonova, V.G., (2000), Mutations, parental age, and offspring longevity: New ideas and findings. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 111(S30), 156-156, 01 Jan 2000
  • Gavrilova N.S., Gavrilov L.A., Semyonova V.G., Evdokushkina G.N., (2000), Mechanisms of familial transmission of human longevity [Meeting Abstract]. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 111(S30), 156-157, 01 Jan 2000
  • Semenova V.G., Gavrilova N.S., Varavikova Ye.A., Gavrilov L.A., Yevdokushkina G.N, (2000), Rise in violent death rates in Russia as a consequence of the economic crisis. Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion, 4, 3-10, 01 Jan 2000
  • Semenova V.G., Varavikova Ye.A., Gavrilova N.S., Evdokushkina G.N., Gavrilov L.A, (2000), Evolution of female mortality due to injuries and intoxications in some regions of Russia in the period of economic reforms. Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion, 3, 29-31, 01 Jan 2000
  • Carnes BA, Olshansky SJ, Gavrilov L, Gavrilova N, Grahn D, Human longevity: nature vs. nurture--fact or fiction, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 42(3), 422-41, Spring 1999 Abstract
  • Gavrilov, L.A., Gavrilova, N.S., (1999), Season of birth and human longevity . Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine, 2(4), 365-366, 01 Jan 1999
  • Gavrilov, L.A., Gavrilova, N.S., (1999), Is there a reproductive cost for human longevity?. Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine, 2(2), 121-123, 01 Jan 1999
  • Gavrilov, L.A., Gavrilova, N.S, (1999), How human longevity and species survival could be compatible with high mutation rates. Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine, 2(2), 153-154, 01 Jan 1999
  • Gavrilova NS, Gavrilov LA, (1999), Data resources for biodemographic studies on familial clustering of human longevity. Demographic Research [Online], 1(4), 1-48, 01 Jan 1999
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, The future of long life, Science, 281(5383), 1611-2; author reply, Sep 1998 Abstract
  • Gavrilova NS, Gavrilov LA, Evdokushkina GN, Semyonova VG, Gavrilova AL, Evdokushkina NN, Kushnareva YE, Kroutko VN, Andreyev AYu, (1998), Evolution, mutations, and human longevity: European royal and noble families. Human Biology, 70(4), 799-804, 01 Aug 1998
  • Gavrilova NS, Gavrilov LA, Evdokushkina GN, Semyonova VG, Gavrilova AL, Evdokushkina NN, Kushnareva YE, Kroutko VN, Andreyev AYu, Evolution, mutations, and human longevity: European royal and noble families, Human Biology; an International Record of Research, 70(4), 799-804, Aug 1998 Abstract
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, Semenova VG, Evdokushkina GN, Krut'ko VN, Gavrilova AL, Evdokushkina NN, Kushnareva IuE, [Regularities in the inheritance of human life expectancy: contribution of paternal and maternal longevity on life span of offspring], Doklady Akademii Nauk, 360(2), 281-3, May 1998 Abstract
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, Evdokushkina GN, Semenova VG, Krut'ko VN, Gavrilova AL, Evdokushkina NN, Kushnareva DE, [Evolution theory, mutations, and human life span], Doklady Akademii Nauk, 359(3), 426-7, March 1998 Abstract
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, (1998), The future of long life. Science, 281(5383), 1611-2, 01 Jan 1998
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, When should fatherhood stop?, Science, 277(5322), 17-8, Jul 1997 Abstract
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, Semenova VG, Evdokushkina GN, Krut'ko VN, Gavrilova AL, Evdokushkina NN, Lapshin EV, (1997), Maternal age and lifespan of the offspring. Doklady Akademii Nauk, 354(4), 569-72, 01 Jun 1997
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, Semenova VG, Evdokushkina GN, Krut'ko VN, Gavrilova AL, Evdokushkina NN, Lapshin EV, [Maternal age and lifespan of the offspring], Doklady Akademii Nauk / [rossiiskaia Akademii Nauk], 354(4), 569-72, Jun 1997 Abstract
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, Kroutko VN, Evdokushkina GN, Semyonova VG, Gavrilova AL, Lapshin EV, Evdokushkina NN, Kushnareva YE, Mutation load and human longevity, Mutation Research, 377(1), 61-2, Jun 1997 Abstract
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, Kroutko VN, Evdokushkina GN, Semyonova VG, Gavrilova AL, Lapshin EV, Evdokushkina NN, Kushnareva YE, (1997), Mutation load and human longevity. Mutation Research, 377(1), 61-2, 01 Jan 1997
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, (1997), When should fatherhood stop?. Science, 277(5322), 17-8, 01 Jan 1997
  • Gavrilov, L.A., Gavrilova, N.S, (1997), Parental age at conception and offspring longevity. Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, 7(1), 5-12, 01 Jan 1997
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, Snarskaia NP, Semenova VG, Evdokushkina GN, Gavrilova AL, Lapshin EV, Evdokushkina NN, [Paternal age and lifespan of the offspring], Doklady Akademii Nauk, 341(4), 566-8, April 1995 Abstract
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, Sex and longevity, Nature, 367(6463), 520, 1994 Abstract
  • Gavrilov, L.A., Gavrilova, N.S., From Leonid A.Gavrilov and Natalia S.Gavrilova, BioEssays, 16(8), 591-593, 1994
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, Fruit fly aging and mortality, Science, 260(5114), 1565; author reply 1, Jun 1993 Abstract
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, (1993), Fruit fly aging and mortality. Science, 260(5114), 1565, 01 Jan 1993
  • Gavrilov L.A., Gavrilova N.S, (1991), The Biology of Life Span: A Quantitative Approach. Harwood Academic Publishers, 01 Jan 1991
  • Gavrilov LA, [Biological-demographic aspects of investigating the duration of life], 105-21, 1988
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, Semyonova VG, Epidemiologic approach to the biology of human life span, Geographia Medica, 15, 40-64, 1985 Abstract
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, Nosov VN, Human life span stopped increasing: why?, Gerontology, 29(3), 176-80, 1983 Abstract
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, [Kinetic patterns of human mortality in historical perspective], Doklady Akademii Nauk Sssr, 245(4), 1017-20, 1979 Abstract
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, [Determination of the specific duration of life], Doklady Akademii Nauk Sssr, 246(2), 465-9, 1979 Abstract
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, Iaguzhinskii LS, [Basic patterns of aging and death in animals from the standpoint of reliability theory], Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii, 39(5), 734-42, 1978 Abstract
  • Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS, [Diploid cell cultures as an object for the study of the molecular mechanisms of aging], Uspekhi Sovremennoi Biologii, 85(2), 267-83, 1978 Abstract

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