Linda Partridge
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- University of Oxford (BA, MA, DPhil)[1]
- Frink Medal (1999)
- Sewall Wright Award (2002)
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2003)
- Longevity Prize of the Fondation Ipsen (2004)
- Member of EMBO (2005)
- Darwin-Wallace Medal (2008)
- Croonian Lecture (2009)
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2009)
- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010)
- Joan Mott Prize Lecture (2014)
- Mendel Medal (2021)
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| Born | 18 March 1950 |
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| Spouse | Michael J. Morgan[2] |
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| Thesis | Behavioural aspects of the ecology of some paridae (1974) |
| Website | www |
Dame Linda Partridge (born 18 March 1950[2]) is a British geneticist, who studies the biology and genetics of ageing (biogerontology) and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Partridge is currently Weldon Professor of Biometry at the Institute of Healthy Ageing, Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, and the Founding Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing in Cologne, Germany.[citation needed]
Partridge was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart School in Tunbridge Wells[4] and the University of Oxford from which she was awarded Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy[1] degrees.
Career
After completing her DPhil at the University of Oxford, Partridge became a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) post-doctoral fellow at the University of York, and in 1976 moved to the University of Edinburgh where she became Professor of Evolutionary Biology. 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. In 2008 Partridge became a Director in the Max Planck Society and the Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne, Germany.[5]
