Thank you Dr. Jafari for hosting this wonderful Christmas gathering!

Congratulations to our graduating seniors: Alex, Amanda, Bryant, Cristian, Eric, Nowshin, and Rami!

  “When you look at how we think about aging, we don’t really consider it a disease—it’s just considered a ‘natural’ thing. But I think aging and lifespan research really should be the future of medicine” -Dr. Mahtab Jafari The

Dr. Jafari and her team of researchers recently showed that green tea polyphenols (GTP), consumed at high dosages, can impair development and reproductive fitness in fruit flies. Fruit fly embryo and larvae that were exposed to 10 mg/mL of GTP showed