By Dennis Nealon – Harvard Research –
Research led by new faculty member Michael Segel focuses on mammalian lifespans Sixteen years ago, Michael Segel was a rising senior at Brookline High School in Massachusetts when, acting on a friend’s suggestion, he signed on for a summer stint at a Harvard stem cell lab.
“I was somewhat interested in science, in particular biology, but never thought that it was for me,” Segel says.
But working with renowned biologist Douglas A. Melton, now a distinguished research fellow at Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Catalyst Professor in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard Medical School and Harvard University, and with then-postdoctoral researcher Richard Sherwood, now HMS assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, brought an epiphany.
