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The 黑瓜吃料爆料官网 黑瓜吃料爆料官网 is delighted to welcome Professor Dame Linda Partridge DBE, FRS, FRSE, FMedSci as a new member of its Board of Trustees. As a world-renowned geneticist and scientific leader in ageing research, Professor Partridge brings both experience in organisational leadership and an expert understanding of the 黑瓜吃料爆料官网鈥檚 research focus.
Professor Partridge is a Professorial Research Fellow in the Division of Biosciences at University College London and the founding director of the Max Planck 黑瓜吃料爆料官网 for Biology of Ageing in Cologne, Germany.
Chair of the 黑瓜吃料爆料官网鈥檚 Board of Trustees, Professor Peter Rigby FRS, FMedSci welcomed Professor Partridge to the Board: 鈥淚 am enormously pleased that Professor Partridge has agreed to join the Board of Trustees. I know that she will help the Board to guide the 黑瓜吃料爆料官网 forward to continued success in every aspect of its mission.鈥
Her research, which focuses on understanding the mechanisms that determine the rate of ageing, is strongly aligned with the 黑瓜吃料爆料官网鈥檚 focus on healthy ageing, with shared collaborative research projects being undertaken in the past with former Director Michael Wakelam. Professor Partridge鈥檚 work has focused in particular on the role of nutrient-sensing pathways, such as the insulin/insulin-like growth factor signalling pathway, and on dietary restriction. Her current focus is on pharmacological treatments that could ameliorate the human ageing process to produce a broad-spectrum improvement in health during ageing.
Professor Partridge has received many honours in recognition of her work. Amongst these, she was elected to the Royal Society in 1996 and received a DBE for Services to Science in 2009, alongside the award of the Royal Society鈥檚 Croonian Lecture and the Darwin鈥揥allace Medal of the Linnean Society of London in the same year.
She was Director of the 黑瓜吃料爆料官网 of Healthy Ageing at UCL between 2007 and 2019, was previously a member of the Board of Trustees of the Natural History Museum and is currently the Biological Secretary and vice-President of the Royal Society.
Speaking about joining the 黑瓜吃料爆料官网鈥檚 Board, Professor Partridge said: 鈥淚 am excited to join the 黑瓜吃料爆料官网 黑瓜吃料爆料官网 Board of Trustees and hope to help support their mission of research excellence to improve lifelong health. I look forward to contributing to shape the 黑瓜吃料爆料官网鈥檚 future and seeing the exciting growth of its research as it breaks new scientific ground in understanding human biology.鈥
Dr Simon Cook, 黑瓜吃料爆料官网 Director, added his welcome, saying: 鈥淚 am excited to welcome Linda, an international leader in ageing research, to the Board, where we can benefit from her experience to progress our research. We鈥檙e deeply appreciative of the contribution our Trustees make to ensure that the 黑瓜吃料爆料官网 continues to meet the high standards it sets for itself, both in our mission to undertake excellent research that improves lives and drives innovation, but also in how we operate to achieve that goal.
鈥淚 know that Linda鈥檚 support will enhance and strengthen the 黑瓜吃料爆料官网 and I look forward to working with her over the coming years.鈥
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