Rozalyn Anderson

Rozalyn Anderson
Institutions University of Wisconsin
Alma mater Trinity College and University college, Dublin, Ireland
Known for Caloric restriction longevity studies in primates
Website
www.medicine.wisc.edu/geriatrics/andersonlabmain

Rozalyn (Roz) Anderson is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin. She studies aging and caloric restriction in primates.[1]

Education and Career

Anderson received her Bachelor's degree from Trinity College and her PhD in biochemistry from University College, both in Dublin, Ireland. In 2000 she moved to Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA for a post-doc with David Sinclair where she studied caloric restriction and aging in yeast. She began studying mammalian aging during her second post-doc with Richard Weindruch at the University of Wisconsin Institute on Aging and as an assistant scientist at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. She became an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin in 2010 in the Department of Medicine.[1][2]

Research

Anderson worked as part of the University of Wisconsin team that demonstrated that caloric restriction has a beneficial effect in rhesus monkeys, improves survival, and lowers the incidence of diseases including diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease over the course of nearly three decades.[3][4][5][6] She continues to study the mechanism by which caloric restriction is able to have these effects. Her research focuses on primate skeletal muscle, white adipose tissue, inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and metabolic regulators of cancer growth.[2]

In a 2014 interview discussing the different results of the National Institute of Aging and University of Wisconsin Rhesus Monkey Caloric Restriction studies, Anderson points out that due to the experimental setup, both the control and experimental groups were calorie restricted to some degree, which explains why no significant improvement was found in the experimental group. She also points out that the two studies are more informative due to their differing designs than if they had been performed identically.[7] [8]

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "University of Wisconsin - Madison Institute on Aging, Madison, Wisconsin". aging.wisc.edu. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Rozalyn Anderson's Laboratory | University Of Wisconsin - Department of Medicine". medicine.wisc.edu. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  3. ↑ Colman RJ, Anderson RM, Johnson SC et al. (2009). "Caloric restriction delays disease onset and mortality in rhesus monkeys". Science 325 (5937): 201–4. Bibcode:2009Sci...325..201C. doi:10.1126/science.1173635. PMC 2812811. PMID 19590001.
  4. ↑ Colman RJ; Beasley TM; Kemnitz JW; Johnson SC; Weindruch R; Anderson RM (Apr 1, 2014). "Caloric restriction reduces age-related and all-cause mortality in rhesus monkeys". Nature Communications 5: 3557. Bibcode:2014NatCo...5E3557C. doi:10.1038/ncomms4557. PMC 3988801. PMID 24691430. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  5. ↑ Anderson, R. M.; Shanmuganayagam, D.; Weindruch, R. (2009). "Caloric Restriction and Aging: Studies in Mice and Monkeys". Toxicologic Pathology 37 (1): 47–51. doi:10.1177/0192623308329476. PMID 19075044.
  6. ↑ Rezzi, Serge; Martin, François-Pierre J.; Shanmuganayagam, Dhanansayan; Colman, Ricki J.; Nicholson, Jeremy K.; Weindruch, Richard (2009). "Metabolic shifts due to long-term caloric restriction revealed in nonhuman primates". Experimental Gerontology 44 (5): 356–62. doi:10.1016/j.exger.2009.02.008. PMC 2822382. PMID 19264119.
  7. ↑ "The New York Times". nytimes.com. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "The New York Times". nytimes.com. Retrieved 12 August 2014.