Linda Partridge

Professor Dame Linda Partridge   (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.

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.

Awards
Partridge 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), and received the Croonian lectureship from the Royal Society.

In March 2009, the UKRC announced Dame Linda was one of six Women of Outstanding Achievement in Science, Engineering and Technology.

She is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.

She was awarded Foreign Honorary Membership from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.
She has been awarded Honorary Degrees (DSc) from the University of Bath in 2011, the University of Oxford and  the University of Brighton.

 BBC interview 
In a recent BBC radio interview Partridge talked about her life and work.

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