Alejandro Ocampo
Aging researcher known for work on partial cellular reprogramming as a way to rejuvenate tissues, and senior author of a cross-species platform for screening lifespan-extending compounds
Professor, University of Lausanne · EPITERNA (Épalinges, Switzerland)
Portrait: Alpian (interview with Prof. Alejandro Ocampo)
Alejandro Ocampo leads a laboratory at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and is also listed with the company EPITERNA in Épalinges. A bio on a Nature collection page describes his lab's work as epigenetic rejuvenation, including mouse models in which reprogramming factors can be switched on in specific tissues or the whole body.
The 2026 Cell Reports study in the Atlas is a different kind of project: a screening platform. It tests whether drugs extend lifespan in five species, from yeast and worms to flies, killifish and mice, using automated imaging and deep-learning software that detects when animals die. More than 400 compounds were tested across thousands of conditions.
Comparing species lets the team pick out compounds that work in several of them and point to longevity pathways shared across species. mTOR is one of the best-known of these pathways, and rapamycin is the classic compound that extends lifespan in many species.
Milestones in the Atlas
A selection, not a full bibliography: only papers that meet the Atlas inclusion criteria.
| Year | Evidence | Study |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | A | A cross-species drug-discovery platform to accelerate the identification of lifespan-extending interventions PEREZ2026 Built a high-throughput lifespan-screening platform across yeast, nematodes, flies, killifish and mice and evaluated more than 400 compounds; Ocampo is the last and corresponding author. |
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- Kevin Perez Aging researcher and co-founder of the Swiss company EPITERNA, working with Alejandro Ocampo's lab at the University of Lausanne on screening platforms that look for drugs extending lifespan across several species
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