{"id":564,"date":"2026-01-22T06:10:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/center-for-healthy-aging\/?page_id=564"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:36:59","slug":"comparitive-aging","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/center-for-healthy-aging\/focus-areas\/comparitive-aging\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus Area: Comparitive Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To date, virtually all research on the basic mechanisms of aging has used model species that are short-lived and thus demonstrably unsuccessful at combating basic aging processes. Comparative Aging research leverages a diversity of populations and species, focusing on those with particularly long, healthy lives, in order to study the causative mechanisms that distinguish them from shorter-lived organisms. The Center for Healthy Aging is comprised of affiliated faculty who are experts in translational science and carry out innovative animal-to-human aging studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Center for Healthy Aging is uniquely positioned to study aging in pet dogs due to a partnership with CSU\u2019s Veterinary Teaching Hospital and their world-renowned veterinary clinical trials program. Pet dogs have lifespans that differ by more than 50% and short- and long-lived dogs are easily distinguished by body size. Moreover, companion dogs live in human environments, develop age-related disease naturally, and have access to health care that is similar to humans; thus, the companion dog is a powerful sentinel model of human aging that is often studied here at the Center.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Researchers:<\/strong>

Lise Aubry<\/a>
Susan Bailey<\/a>
Felix Duerr<\/a>
Nicole Ehrhart<\/a>
Laurie Goodrich<\/a>
Kelly Hall<\/a>
Karyn Hamilton<\/a>
Tom LaRocca<\/a>
Candace Mathiason<\/a>
Kirk McGilvray<\/a>
Stephanie McGrath<\/a>
Julie Moreno<\/a>
Brian Scansen<\/a>
Kelly Santangelo<\/a>
Stu Tobet<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To date, virtually all research on the basic mechanisms of aging has used model species that are short-lived and thus demonstrably unsuccessful at combating basic aging processes. Comparative Aging research leverages a diversity of populations and species, focusing on those with particularly long, healthy lives, in order to study the causative mechanisms that distinguish them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":571,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"microsite":[6],"class_list":["post-564","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/center-for-healthy-aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/center-for-healthy-aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/center-for-healthy-aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/center-for-healthy-aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/center-for-healthy-aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/center-for-healthy-aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/564\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/center-for-healthy-aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/center-for-healthy-aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"microsite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.research.colostate.edu\/center-for-healthy-aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/microsite?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}