Journal of Materials Science and Nanotechnology

Dr. Donald K. Ingram presently serves as Adjunct Professor Pennington Biomedical Research Center (PBRC) which is a component of Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. He served as Professor and Chief of the Nutritional Neuroscience and Aging Laboratory from 2007 to 2015. He also served as Chief of the Laboratory of Experimental Gerontology at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Baltimore, Maryland when he departed in 2006 for PBRC.  From 2012-14, he was appointed as Professor (part-time) within the Geriatrics Section, Department of Internal Medicine, LSU Health Science Center, New Orleans. From 2008-2015, he served as the Associate Director of the Animal Phenotyping Core for the Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) at PBRC. He has published more than 400 scientific publications. He serves as Editorial Board member for many International journals. He is a Past President of the American Aging Association (1999) and the Gerontological Society of America (2011). He serves as Chief Scientific Officer for two companies he co-founded: GeroScience, Inc. and Prolongevity Technologies, Inc. He has received several honors including the 2013 Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award from UGA, the 2002 Harman Research Award from the American Aging Association, the 1978 Zimmer Award from the Department of Psychology, UGA; a 1996 Merit Award from the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Donald K. Ingram research is focused on nutritional and pharmacological interventions designed to slow the rate of aging and thus reduce the risk of age-related disease and functional decline. The major area of investigation involves in vivo rodent models and in vitro cellular models to identify protective mechanisms invoked by calorie restriction.