Cynthia Kenyon(1954)
ArtsCynthia Jane Kenyon 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).
United States
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Shared the same award in the same year
MR
Matthew Rabin
MacArthur Fellowship (2000)
HY
Horng-Tzer Yau
MacArthur Fellowship (2000)
EW
Erik Winfree
MacArthur Fellowship (2000)
CG
Cecilia G. Muñoz
MacArthur Fellowship (2000)
MM
Margaret M. Murnane
MacArthur Fellowship (2000)
SM
Susan Marshall
MacArthur Fellowship (2000)
DW
Deborah Willis
MacArthur Fellowship (2000)
KB
Katherine Boo
MacArthur Fellowship (2000)
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Susan E. Alcock
MacArthur Fellowship (2000)
AC
Anne Carson
MacArthur Fellowship (2000)
DP
Daniel P. Schrag
MacArthur Fellowship (2000)
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Lucia Perillo
MacArthur Fellowship (2000)
Education
University of Georgia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology(Doctor of Philosophy)
Career Timeline
University of California, San Francisco?–present
Calico?–present
Academy Memberships
National Academy of Sciences (US)
Related Laureates
Other winners of the same award(s)
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Subhash Khot
MacArthur Fellowship (2016)
LM
Lin-Manuel Miranda
MacArthur Fellowship (2015)
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Eric Lander
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013)
RC
Raj Chetty
John Bates Clark Medal (2013)
Shwetak Patel
MacArthur Fellowship (2011)
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John Dabiri
MacArthur Fellowship (2010)
Saul Griffith
MacArthur Fellowship (2007)
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Daphne Koller
MacArthur Fellowship (2004)
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