| 词条 | Draft:Gordon J. Lithgow |
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Gordon J. Lithgow (born 25 March 1963 in Motherwell, Scotland) is a Scottish medical researcher. Lithgow grew up in Newarthill in North Lanarkshire, traditionally a mining village, and attended Newarthill Primary School and Braidhurst High School, Motherwell. He graduated from the University of Strathclyde in 1985 with a degree in Applied Microbiology and then started work towards a PhD in the laboratory of Alistair Brown at the Institute of Genetics at the University of Glasgow. He defended his PhD thesis in 1989 on transcription mechanisms in yeast. He then moved to Basel, Switzerland, to further study yeast molecular biology. There he became interested in the possibilities of studying aging in simple laboratory animals. This prompted a move to the University of Colorado, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, and to the laboratory of Thomas E. Johnson who was studying the first genetic mutation to slow aging in a gene he called age-1.[1] After making a series of discoveries linking aging to stress,[2] Lithgow established his own independent laboratory at the University of Manchester, England which investigated the relationship between stress and aging. He moved the lab in 2001 to the newly established Buck Institute for Research on Aging.[3] Throughout his career, Lithgow was a prominent spokesperson for aging research and frequently interacting with print, radio and television media. He has appeared on the Today program on Radio 4[4] and has given interviews to numerous national newspapers, including the New York Times[5] and The Guardian about aging and his research, and has presented to science-loving lay audiences.[6] He is the principal investigator and director of the Buck Institute’s Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Geroscience.[7] He is also the principal investigator of the Larry L. Hillblom Network on the Chemical Biology of Aging, and is the coordinator of the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging Support Award.[8] References1. ^Johnson TE, Lithgow GJ. The search for the genetic basis of aging: the identification of gerontogenes in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1992 Sep;40(9):936-45. {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lithgow, Gordon J}}Category:Living peopleCategory:1963 birthsCategory:People from MotherwellCategory:Alumni of the University of StrathclydeCategory:Alumni of the University of GlasgowCategory:British gerontologistsCategory:British medical researchers2. ^Lithgow GJ, White TM, Melov S, Johnson TE. Thermotolerance and extended life-span conferred by single-gene mutations and induced by thermal stress. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1995 Aug 1;92(16):7540-4. 3. ^Dodge V, Melov S. The Buck Institute for age research. Exp Gerontol. 2001 Feb;36(2):205-8. 4. ^http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/904722.stm 5. ^https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/science/05obworm.html?_r=0 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://healthextension.co/gordon-lithgow-at-health-extension-salon-7/ |title=Gordon Lithgow at Health Extension Salon #7 |date=2013-03-28 |website=http://HealthExtension.co |publisher=Health Extension |accessdate=26 June 2013}} 7. ^http://geroscienceonline.org/ 8. ^http://www.buckinstitute.org/Hillblom_Center |
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