Joanna Masel
"The issue is cancer. A huge part of the ageing process is the tendency for new cancers to appear and that tendency is not a reversible disease, unlike making individual cells younger."
Joanna Masel
"The issue is cancer. A huge part of the ageing process is the tendency for new cancers to appear and that tendency is not a reversible disease, unlike making individual cells younger."
Joanna Masel is a Professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, where she teaches Evidence-Based Medicine. She is a mathematical modeler and data scientist who has published in diverse fields including biochemistry, systems biology, infectious disease, aging, evolutionary biology, economics, and education. She studies how selection to prevent and/or mitigate errors in molecular processes shapes biological systems. Other research interests in the diverse nature of biological competitions spill over into economics, where she is the author of
Bypass Wall Street: A Biologist's Guide to the Rat Race. Her current research focuses on risk analysis and testing/tracing/quarantine protocols for COVID-19, including in her role as Head of Science at WeHealth PBC.