Linda Partridge

Professor Dame

Linda Partridge

DBE FRS FRSE FMedSci
Professor Dame; Linda Partridge; DBE FRS FRSE FMedSci
Born	18 March 1950
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA, MA, DPhil);
Spouse	Michael J. Morgan
Awards	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);
	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.ucl.ac.uk/iha/people/linda-partridge

Professor Dame Linda Partridge DBE, FRS, FRSE, FMedSci (born 18 March 1950) 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 Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing in Cologne, Germany.

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