Simin Nikbin Meydani

Emerita Director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts and Professor of Nutrition and Immunology. Author of the trials that showed, across the 1990s and 2000s, that vitamin E supplementation improves T-cell function and reduces respiratory infection in the institutionalized elderly, and of subsequent work on zinc, selenium and the aging immune system.

Why she matters here

Meydani’s work is the empirical foundation for one of this resource’s structural claims: that immunosenescence, in populations at risk, is not a purely intrinsic property of aging but is measurably modifiable by micronutrient status. It is a natural reference for the captive-populations axis of the editorial project.