Dr. Andrzej Bartke has become a poster child for his research focus “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.” - Woody Allen Andrzej Bartke, PhD, can appreciate Woody Allen’s joke on two levels. It’s no small feat to sustain a 50-year career in comedy — or in science and biomedical research. And for the past two decades Bartke has studied the biological mechanisms of aging. He well understands the human desire to postpone the inevitable. Within Bartke’s field of geriatric research, gains made in longevity can occur at the expense of