Matt Kaeberlein

Dr. Matt Kaeberlein (born 1971) is an American biologist and biogerontologist best known for his research on evolutionarily conserved mechanisms of aging. He is currently an Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in 2002 and did his post-doctoral work with Dr. Stanley Fields in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Kaeberlein was appointed as an Assistant Professor in 2006 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. He has authored more than 90 publications on the basic biology of aging and has been recognized with several awards, including a Breakthroughs in Gerontology Award, an Alzheimer’s Association New Investigator Award, and an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging Award. In 2011, he was named the Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star in Aging Research by the American Federation for Aging Research and appointed as a GSA Fellow. Dr. Kaeberlein has mentored over 70 students at the University of Washington and was named as an Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year in 2010. In addition to his primary appointment, Dr. Kaeberlein is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Biochemistry at the Aging Research Institute of Guangdong Medical College in Dongguan, China. He is also the co-Director of the University of Washington Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging, the Director of SAGEWEB, and the founding Director of the Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute at the University of Washington.

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