Vadim E. Fraifeld, MD, PhD is Senior Researcher and Head of the Lab for the Biology of Aging, The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Vadim earned his M.D. at the Lvov Medical Institute, Lvov, Ukraine in 1974 and his Ph.D. at the Institute of Gerontology, Kiev, Ukraine, in 1989. Vadim’s research interests are biology of aging and longevity and thermoregulation. His research projects are genomic and proteomic analyses of exeptional longevity, analysis of protein profile in aging muscle using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry: implications in sarcopenia, mechanisms of anti-tumor activity of polyphenolic compounds, and alternative pathways of arachidonate metabolism, fever, and aging. Vadim works on aging and longevity using a combination of bioinformatics and experimental models.