Judith Campisi
| Judith Campisi | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Biogerontology |
| Institutions |
Buck Institute SENS Research Foundation Lifeboat Foundation |
| Alma mater | Stony Brook University |
| Known for | Cellular senescence |
| Notable awards |
Longevity Prize from the Ipsen Foundation Olav Thon Foundation Prize |
Judith Campisi is a professor of biogerontology at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. She is also a member of the SENS Research Foundation Advisory Board and an adviser at the Lifeboat Foundation. She is co-editor in chief of the Aging Journal, together with Mikhail Blagosklonny and David Sinclair. She is listed in Who's Who in Gerontology.
She is widely known for her research on how senescent cells influence aging and cancer - in particular the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP).[1]
Career
Campisi got her B.A. in Chemistry in 1974 and Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1979 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed her postdoctoral training at the Harvard Medical School in 1982.[2] She initially joined the Boston University Medical School, and moved onto the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a Senior Scientist in 1991.[2] She then moved to the Buck Institute in 2002.
Awards
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Longevity Prize from the Ipsen Foundation
- Olav Thon Foundation Prize[3]
References
- ↑ Cellular senescence: when bad things happen to good cells
- 1 2 "Judith Campisi CV". CEDA Berkeley. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ↑ Judith Campisi receives first Olav Thon Foundation Prize