Do you want to live healthier and longer?

We see aging as a reversible epigenetic state and we are developing novel therapies based on cellular reprogramming to solve one of the major challenges in human history.

Who are we?

Ocampo Lab team

We are an international team of ambitious scientists driven to address fundamental questions in aging research with translational applications to human therapies.

What’s new?

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EPITERNA

August 1, 2023

We are excited to announce EPITERNA, a spin-off from the Ocampo Lab at the University of Lausanne. Longevity research is coming of age. Using a unique high-throughput drug screening platform, EPITERNA’s mission is to create more time that matters for people and their pets.

Miguel Angel Muñoz-Lorente. Post-doctoral Fellow, Ocampo Lab

Miguel Angel Muñoz-Lorente joins the lab

December 7, 2021

We are very happy to welcome Miguel Angel Muñoz-Lorente who is joining the lab as Postdoc. Miguel Angel is coming from Spain to investigate aging and reprogramming in killifish!

Alba del Valle Vilchez Acosta. Post-doctoral Fellow, Ocampo Lab

Alba del Valle Vilchez joins the lab

December 7, 2021

We are very happy to announce that Alba Vilchez is joining the lab as a Postdoc. Alba is coming from Spain to unravel mechanisms of brain aging.

Let’s keep thinking!

Ocampo Lab in the media

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Prof. Alejandro Ocampo: Imagining a World Without Aging

December 9, 2021

Everyone knows you can’t turn back time… everyone, except for Alejandro Ocampo, Ph.D. – because that’s precisely what he and his colleagues at Ocampo Lab are working on.

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RTS Radio interview with Calida Mrabti

March 2, 2021

Interview by Adrien Zerbini from the RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse) about our work on killifish. Thank you Calida for a great interview highlighting the benefits of this fantastic model organism for the study of aging.

Scientists say the clock of aging may be reversible

December 15, 2016

At the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., scientists are trying to get time to run backward.