Cynthia Kenyon | |
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| Born | February 21, 1954 |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Aging in C. elegans |
| Awards | Dan David Prize Dickson Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biologist |
| Institutions | Calico Life Sciences, LLC; Professor emeritus University of California San Francisco (UCSF) MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
| Doctoral advisor | Graham C. Walker |
| Notable students | Coleen T. Murphy Andrew Dillin |
Cynthia Jane Kenyon (born February 21, 1954) is an American molecular biologist and biogerontologist known for her genetic dissection of aging in a widely used model organism, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans. She is the vice president of aging research at Calico Research Labs, and emeritus professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).