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Linda Partridge

Linda Partridge

Professorial Research Fellow, University College London

Professor Dame Linda Partridge FRS FRSE FMedSci Linda Partridge works on the biology of ageing. Her research is directed to understanding the mechanisms by which healthy lifespan can be extended in laboratory model organisms and humans. Her work has focussed in particular on the role of nutrient-sensing pathways, such as the insulin/insulin-like growth factor signalling pathway, and on the role of diet, and her primary interest is in geroprotective drugs.  

  She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Royal Society's Croonian Prize Lecture, and was honoured with a DBE for Services to Science in 2009. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She is the emeritus founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne, Germany.

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