Ralph M. Garruto
Research Professor of Biomedical Anthropology and of Neurosciences

BS, MA, PhD, Pennsylvania State University

Human Population Biology

My research focus is on natural experimental models of disease using both field and laboratory approaches. I have conducted fieldwork in the Pacific Islands, China, and Latin America, with a laboratory focus on cellular and molecular mechanisms of neuronal degeneration and experimental modelling. My cross-disciplinary research includes epidemiology and human population biology, environmental biology and biodiversity, bionutrition, aging and genetics.