John M. Sedivy

John Michael Sedivy is the Hermon C. Bumpus Professor of Biology and a Professor of Medical Science at Brown University. He is listed as a F1000 Prime faculty member and on Who's Who in Gerontology. He has published over 130 original articles.^[1]

He wrote the first book on gene targeting in 1992.^[2] In 2006, he published the first comprehensive in vivo quantification of cellular senescence in aging primates. That year, his lab also discovered how (through the Polycomb pathway) c-Myc contributes to the regulation of chromatin states. His research has found that mice missing one copy of the Myc transcription factor live longer than wild-type mice.^[3]

He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Aging Cell, and is chair of the 2015 Gordon Research Conference on the Biology of Aging.

Awards[]

• 1974 Ontario Scholar
• 1981 Ryan Foundation Fellow
• 1989 March of Dimes Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar
• 1990 Presidential Young Investigator
• 1991 Andrew Mellon Award
• 2006 Hermon C. Bumpus Endowed Chair in Biology, Brown University
• 2007 Senior Research Scholar in Aging, Ellison Medical Foundation
• 2009 NIH MERIT Award, National Institute on Aging
• 2011 Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging
• 2015 Chair, Gordon Research Conference on the Biology of Aging

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