CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRT), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing small molecule drugs to treat diseases of aging, announced today that Leonard P. Guarente, Ph.D., Novartis Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has joined its Scientific Advisory Board as Co-Chair. Also, Sirtris has co-authored a review with Professor Guarente in the November 2007 issue of Trends In Biochemical Sciences (TIBS).