Dhahbi J M earned an M.D. at the University of Tunis in 1984, and a PhD in Genetics at the University of California, Riverside in 1998. He worked as a public health physician in Tunisia. In the USA, he worked as a senior scientist at several pharmaceutical companies and he was a CIRM Clinical Fellow, at Oakland Children’s Hospital. Currently, as a Research Biochemist, at University of California Riverside, he is using deep sequencing to study the anti-aging and anti-cancer effects of calorie restriction. He focuses on circulating 5’ tRNA halves and YRNA fragments; he is exploring the possibility that they can be markers of aging and its associated diseases, particularly cancer. Dhahbi J M earned an M.D. at the University of Tunis in 1984, and a PhD in Genetics at the University of California, Riverside in 1998. He worked as a public health physician in Tunisia. In the USA, he worked as a senior scientist at several pharmaceutical companies and he was a CIRM Clinical Fellow, at Oakland Children’s Hospital. Currently, as a Research Biochemist, at University of California Riverside, he is using deep sequencing to study the anti-aging and anti-cancer effects of calorie restriction. He focuses on circulating 5’ tRNA halves and YRNA fragments; he is exploring the possibility that they can be markers of aging and its associated diseases, particularly cancer.

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