Mikhail Blagosklonny is a scientist who studies

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and

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. He is an adjunct faculty member at

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Career

Blagosklonny earned both his

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in internal medicine and his

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in experimental medicine and cardiology from the First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg. He was appointed associate professor of medicine at

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, Valhalla, NY in 2002 before taking a position as a senior scientist at Ordway Research Institute (

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). Blagosklonny held this position until 2009, when he was appointed professor of oncology at

. Blagosklonny's research interests include cancer and targeted cancer therapies that protect normal cells from damage, as well as the underlying mechanisms of aging ( biogerontology) and anti-aging drugs. Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center lists Blagosklonny as holding "Adjunct Faculty" and "Cell Stress Biology" positions with them.

Rapamycin and aging

Blagosklonny has formulated a hypothesis about the possible role of TOR signaling in aging and cancer and proposed using rapamycin, a popular cancer drug as a possible treatment for life extension. He advocates for rapamycin use in longevity research.

Editorial activities

Blagosklonny is

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of ''Aging'', ''Cell Cycle'', and '' Oncotarget''. In addition, he is associate editor of '' Cancer Biology & Therapy'' and a member of the editorial board of ''

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''. The

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process employed by ''Oncotarget'' has been criticized by Jeffrey Beall, a university librarian and expert on predatory open access publishing, who also included ''Oncotarget'' and ''Aging'' on his list of "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals" in July 2015. Further reports on Beall's blog suggest that the substandard peer review processes for these journals are used by their respective editors-in-chief to entice prospective authors to include references to Blagosklonny's own publications in their articles (following the peer review), thereby raising his personal citation impact.

Health

Blagosklonny announced that in January 2023 he was diagnosed with numerous metastases of lung cancer in his brain.

References

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