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Susan E. Howlett, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Brief Bio: Susan Howlett is Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine (Geriatric Medicine) at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where she has taught for more than 30 years. Originally from Montreal, she completed her Ph.D. at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta, before moving to Dalhousie in 1989. Her laboratory is well known for work on cardiac excitation-contraction coupling. She has discovered profound differences in the way that male and female heart cells function, how this changes with age and how sex hormones regulate these processes. Her laboratory has pioneered the measurement of frailty in naturally aging animals with a novel "frailty index" tool based on deficit accumulation. Her recent work shows that maladaptive, age-dependent changes in heart structure and function at both macroscopic and microscopic levels are better graded by the level of frailty than by age itself. As a frequent contributor to prominent journals including JGBS, Geroscience, Mech Aging Dev, JMCC, J Physiol, AJP, Nature Aging and Nature Comm, reviewer and editorialist, Susan has a wide view of basic heart and aging research. Her personal and collaborative scientific experience allows insight into the needs of researchers across the career span. Her mentorship of now generations of young scientists, the great bulk of whom have pursued academic careers, speaks to her ability to inspire young researchers.

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