Mikhail Blagosklonny | |
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Died | October 2024 |
Alma mater | First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Peterburg |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Anti-aging medicine, oncology |
Institutions |
Mikhail Blagosklonny was a scientist who studied cancer and aging. He died in October 2024. He was an adjunct faculty member at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York. [1]
Blagosklonny earned both his M.D. in internal medicine and his PhD in experimental medicine and cardiology from the First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg.[ citation needed ] He was appointed associate professor of medicine at New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY in 2002 before taking a position as a senior scientist at Ordway Research Institute (Albany, New York). Blagosklonny held this position until 2009, when he was appointed professor of oncology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. [2]
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. [3] Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center lists Blagosklonny as holding "Adjunct Faculty" and "Cell Stress Biology" positions with them. [1]
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. [4] He advocates for rapamycin use in longevity research. [5]
Blagosklonny is editor-in-chief of Aging, [6] Cell Cycle, [7] and Oncotarget . [8] In addition, he is associate editor of Cancer Biology & Therapy [9] and a member of the editorial board of Cell Death & Differentiation . [10]
The peer review process employed by Oncotarget has been criticized by Jeffrey Beall, [11] 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" [12] in July 2015. [11] 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. [13]
Blagosklonny announced that in January 2023 he was diagnosed with numerous metastases of lung cancer in his brain. [14] He died in October 2024 at the age of 63. [15]