Associate Professor in the Free Radical and Radiation Biology Graduate
Program at University of Iowa. Dr. Spitz is an established investigator with
more than 75 peer reviewed publications in the field of Free Radical
Biology, has been supported by NIH for more than 15 years, currently sits on the Editorial Board of the number one journal in the field (Free Radical
Biology and Medicine), as well as being co-director (with Dr. Larry W.
Oberley) of the Antioxidant Enzyme Core Laboratory at University of Iowa.

Dr. Spitz has access to, and is well versed in, all the technologies
associated with measuring prooxidant production, antioxidant capacity, and oxidative damage in biological systems, including isolated mitochondria. Dr. Spitz also has an interest in free radical mechanisms associated with aging as well as access to cultures of normal human fibroblasts and age matched/sex matched fibroblasts derived from human progeria patients that suffer from rapid aging syndrome. In this regard the collaboration between Drs. Spitz and Dr. Ballard represents the ideal blend of expertise necessary for the successful completion of studies relating to comparative mitochondrial genomics and aging and extension of the results to human cell culture model systems relevant to aging.