Research conducted by Dr. Esteban Calvo and researchers at Columbia University was awarded the Advances in Life Course Research Award

Research lead by Dr. Esteban Calvo, director of the Society and Health research Center, with regards to the effect of stress on salivary telomere length was awarded a very prestigious award at the Alpine Population Conference on January 21st. The article titled "Stress and salivary telomere length in the second half of life: A comparison of life-course models" was chosen for the "2019 Advances in Life Course Research Young Scholar Award". The authors of this work are as follows: Margaret Willis (Columbia University), Ursula Staudinger (Columbia University), Pam Factor-Litvak (Columbia University) and Esteban Calvo (Columbia University and Universidad Mayor). Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2019.02.001