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Cynthia Kenyon

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US molecular biologist

United StatesBorn 1954 · age 72
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Cynthia Jane Kenyon is an American molecular biologist and biogerontologist known for her genetic dissection of aging in a widely used model organism, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans.

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2021Dickson Prize in Medicine
2011Dan David Prize
2007honorary doctorate from University of Paris-XI
2006Longevity Prize
2000King Faisal International Prize in Medicine
1989Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering

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Cynthia Jane Kenyon is an American molecular biologist and biogerontologist known for her genetic dissection of aging in a widely used model organism, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans. She is the vice president of aging research at Calico Research Labs, and emeritus professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

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