Linda Partridge
Professor Dame Linda Partridge DBE, FRS, FRSE, FMedSci (born 18 March 1950) is a British geneticist. She studies the biology and genetics of ageing (biogerontology) and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.[1]
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| Born | 18 March 1950 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | St Anne's College, Oxford (MA)[1] |
| Spouse | Michael J. Morgan[1] |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1992) Fellow of the Royal Society (1996) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genetics Gerontology |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh University of York University College London University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Behavioural aspects of the ecology of some paridae (1974) |
| Website | www |
In 1994, she moved to University College London (UCL) as Weldon Professor of Biometry and was the Director of the Institute of Healthy Ageing between 2007 and 2019.
She is also founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing.[3]
Awards
changePartridge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996 and appointed CBE in 2003. She was awarded the Linnean Society of London's prestigious Darwin–Wallace Medal in 2008.
In 2009, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE),[4] and received the Croonian lectureship from the Royal Society.[5]
In March 2009, the UKRC announced Dame Linda was one of six Women of Outstanding Achievement in Science, Engineering and Technology.[6]
She is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.[7]
She was awarded Foreign Honorary Membership from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.[8] She has been awarded Honorary Degrees (DSc) from the University of Bath in 2011, the University of Oxford and the University of Brighton.[9]
BBC interview
changeIn a recent BBC radio interview Partridge talked about her life and work.[10]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "PARTRIDGE, Dame Linda". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
- ↑ "Linda Partridge". The Life Scientific. 28 May 2013. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ↑ "Home". www.age.mpg.de.
- ↑ "No. 59090". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 2009. p. 7.
- ↑ "- Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 2018-11-19. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
- ↑ UCL (11 March 2009). "Professor Linda Partridge: Woman of Outstanding Achievement". UCL News.
- ↑ "Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering". Archived from the original on 2010-08-28. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
- ↑ "2010 Class of New Members". Archived from the original on 2010-04-23. Retrieved 2016-08-20.
- ↑ "Distinguished line-up for honorary degrees - News and events - University of Brighton". Archived from the original on 2012-08-25. Retrieved 2016-08-20.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Linda Partridge".