Tryve Tollefsbol
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| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
| Occupation | Professor |
Trygve Tollefsbol is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the department of Biology. In his role as founder and chief editor for Elsevier’s Translational Epigenetics, an internationally recognized series, he has directed the publication of almost 50 books on the topic of epigenetics. Tollefsbol’s edited and co-authored textbook, Handbook of Epigenetics, 3rd ed.,, is a standard in the field. He has either published, or has in press, 20 books on topics such as epigenetics, aging, cancer and telomerase. As editor and co-author, Medical Epigenetics, won the Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award).
Tollefsbol has contributed chapters on epigenetics in Lewin’s GENES, a well-known textbook in molecular biology and has published over 200 scientific articles. The focus of his early research involved mechanisms of DNA methylation in aging and he was among the pioneers advocating the importance of epigenetic processes (such as DNA methylation) in aging cells. Tollefsbol has been a leader in the field of phytochemical-based epigenetic mechanisms to prevent cancer. Tolllefsbol and Hardy coined the phrase "epigenetic diet" in 2011. He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Houston and obtained a Master of Science, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of North Texas Health Sciences Center and completed his postdoctoral studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina. Tollefsbol joined the faculty at UAB in 1998 where he is a Distinguished Professor of Biology and a senior scientist in the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, Integrative Center for Aging Research, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, Comprehensive Diabetes Center, and the University Wide Microbiome Center. He founded, and for over 20 years directed, UAB's Cell Senescence Culture Facility.
Tollefsbol received aa grant from the Glenn Foundation for research on the mechanisms of biological aging and served for many years as Associate Editor of Frontiers in Genetics, a leading international journal in genetics. He has chaired and served on Study Sections of NIH to review grants about aging, genetics, and cancer. He received the Ireland Award for Scholarly Distinction at UAB in 2015. .
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