Assistant Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Jennifer L. Garrison, PhD, is Founder and Director of the Global Consortium for Female Reproductive Longevity & Equality (GCRLE) and an Assistant Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. She also holds appointments in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at UCSF and the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California. She is a passionate advocate for women’s health and is pioneering a new movement to advance science focused on female reproductive aging with the ultimate goal of ending menopause. This initiative, by focusing research on understanding how and why women go through reproductive decline in mid-life, has the potential to dramatically and significantly improve the health and well-being of women worldwide.
She received her BA in Molecular Cell Biology from the UC Berkeley then completed her PhD at UCSF in Chemistry and Chemical Biology where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow and an ARCS Scholar, then was a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rockefeller University. She was named an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and an Allen Institute for Brain Science Next Generation Leader and is the recipient of a Pathway to Independence Award and a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award for Early Stage Investigators from the NIH, a Glenn Medical Foundation Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging, and a Junior Faculty Award from the American Federation of Aging Research.