Linda Partridge
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| Born | 18 March 1950 | ||
| Nationality | British | ||
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Genetics Gerontology |
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University of Edinburgh University of York University College London University of Oxford |
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| Alma mater |
St Anne's College, Oxford (MA) Wolfson College, Oxford (DPhil) |
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| Thesis | Behavioural aspects of the ecology of some paridae (1974) | ||
| Notable awards |
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1992) |
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| Spouse | Michael J. Morgan | ||
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1992)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1996)
Frink Medal (1999)
Sewall Wright Award (2002)
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2004)
Darwin-Wallace Medal (2008)
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2009)
Croonian lectureship (2009)
Dame Linda Partridge DBE FMedSci (born 18 March 1950) is a British geneticist, who studies the biology and genetics of ageing (biogerontology) and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Patridge is currently the Weldon Professor of Biometry at the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment of University College London, director of UCL's Institute of Healthy Ageing and founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing.
Patridge was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart school in Tunbridge Wells and the University of Oxford from which she was awarded Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
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