Trygve Tollefsbol, Ph.D., is a professor of molecular biology in the UAB Department of Biology. His research is primarily involved with cancer and aging epigenetics, the underlying mechanisms of cancer and aging and novel therapeutic approaches to cancer. This work has also involved translational research on leukemia, breast cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer and teratocarcinomas as well as other cancers. The single most important risk factor for developing cancer is age and both cancer and aging have been a focus of Tollefsbol's research. He is the director of the Cell Senescence Culture Facility, one of only a few of its kind in the United States.
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