14 Facts About Steve Horvath

Steve Horvath is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Steve Horvath is known for developing the Horvath aging clock, which is a highly accurate molecular biomarker of aging, and for developing weighted correlation network analysis.

Steve Horvath was born 1967 in Frankfurt, Germany; as the family name Steve Horvath indicates, he is of Hungarian ancestry.

Steve Horvath received his Diplom in Mathematics and Physics at Technische Universitat Berlin, graduating in 1989.

In 2000, Steve Horvath joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is a professor of human genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and of biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

In 2011, Steve Horvath co-authored the first article that described an age estimation method based on DNA methylation levels from saliva.

In 2013 Steve Horvath published a single author article on a multi-tissue age estimation method that applies to all nucleated cells, tissues, and organs.

Since the Steve Horvath clock allows one to contrast the ages of different tissues from the same individuals, it can be used to identify tissues that show evidence of increased or decreased age.

Steve Horvath co-authored the first articles demonstrating that DNA methylation age predicts life-expectancy and is positively associated with obesity, HIV infection, Alzheimer's disease, cognitive decline, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, early menopause, and Werner syndrome.

Steve Horvath published the first article demonstrating that trisomy 21 is associated with strong epigenetic age acceleration effects in both blood and brain tissue.

Steve Horvath proposed that slower epigenetic aging rates could explain the mortality advantage of women and the Hispanic mortality paradox.

Steve Horvath published the first large scale study of the effect of lifestyle factors on epigenetic aging rates.

Steve Horvath published a book on weighted network analysis and genomic applications.

Steve Horvath has won several awards for his work on the epigenetic clock.