Medawar Centre for Healthy Ageing Research ^Non-Profits

The University has a longstanding interest in ageing that began when Peter Medawar was the Mason Professor of Zoology in the late 1940s. Medawar is probably best known for his work on immune tolerance, for which he received a Nobel prize, but he also developed one of the key theories relating to the evolution of ageing - the Mutation Accumulation Theory of Ageing.