Dr. Sofiya Milman, MD - Director, Human Longevity Studies, Institute for Aging Research, Einstein

Dr. Sofiya Milman, MD, MS ( https://www.einsteinmed.edu/faculty/12865/sofiya-milman/ ) is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Geriatrics, and is the Director of Human Longevity Studies at the Institute for Aging Research, at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Dr. Milman’s research focuses on a unique population of centenarians and their families ( https://www.superagersstudy.org/ ) who are generally free of age-related diseases, where extreme healthy longevity runs in most of these families, suggesting a heritable basis for this phenomenon.

Dr. Milman's team conducts translational research focused on the discovery of genomic mechanisms that regulate endocrine and metabolic pathways that protect against common age-related diseases, like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's.

Dr. Milman became fascinated by both physiology and genetics during her college years and at SUNY Stonybrook School of Medicine, from which she received her medical degree. Following internal medicine residency and fellowship in endocrinology, both at Montefiore, the opportunity arose to combine her passions for physiology and genetics through work with Dr. Nir Barzilai, MD, Director of Institute for Aging Research, the Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Biology of Aging, and of the Glenn Center for the Biology of Human Aging at Einstein. During her two years of post-doctoral training in translational gerontology and genetics at Einstein’s Institute for Aging Research under Dr. Barzilai’s mentorship, she got hooked on the study of aging and found what has become her life’s work.