Rozalyn Anderson

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Rozalyn Anderson
Alma mater Trinity College and University college, Dublin, Ireland
Known forCaloric restriction longevity studies in primates
Scientific career
Institutions University of Wisconsin
Website andersonlab.medicine.wisc.edu

Rozalyn (Roz) Anderson is a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She studies aging and caloric restriction in primates. [1]

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Education

Anderson received her bachelor's degree from Trinity College, Dublin and her Ph.D. in biochemistry from University College Dublin. In 2000 she moved to Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts for a post-doctoral fellowship with David Sinclair, where she studied caloric restriction and aging in yeast. She began studying mammalian aging during a second post-doctoral fellowship with Richard Weindruch at the University of Wisconsin Institute on Aging and as an assistant scientist at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. She is currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin in the Department of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology. [2] [3] Since 2014, Anderson has also been affiliated with the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. [4]

Research

In the Sinclair laboratory at Harvard Medical School, Anderson researched the regulation of the lifespan by calorie restriction in yeast, demonstrating that lifespan could be extended by genetic manipulation of the NAD+ salvage pathway, [5] [6] and that calorie restriction downregulates NAD+. [7]

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. [8] [9] [10] [11] She continues to study caloric restriction, focusing on primate skeletal muscle, white adipose tissue, inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and metabolic regulators of cancer growth. [3]

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. [12] [13]

In 2013, Anderson won the Nathan Shock New Investigator Award from the Gerontological Society of America. [14] [15]

From 2019-2021, Anderson served as the President of the American Aging Association. [16]

Anderson is the co-editor-in-chief of The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences. [17]

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References

  1. ↑ "University of Wisconsin - Madison Institute on Aging, Madison, Wisconsin". aging.wisc.edu. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "| Department of Medicine". www.medicine.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  3. 1 2 "Rozalyn Anderson's Laboratory | University Of Wisconsin - Department of Medicine". medicine.wisc.edu. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "Meet Our Faculty and Staff" . Retrieved 2015-09-12.
  5. ↑ Anderson, Rozalyn M.; Bitterman, Kevin J.; Wood, Jason G.; Medvedik, Oliver; Cohen, Haim; Lin, Stephen S.; Manchester, Jill K.; Gordon, Jeffrey I.; Sinclair, David A. (2002-05-24). "Manipulation of a nuclear NAD+ salvage pathway delays aging without altering steady-state NAD+ levels". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277 (21): 18881–18890. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M111773200 . ISSN   0021-9258. PMC   3745358 . PMID   11884393.
  6. ↑ Anderson, Rozalyn M.; Bitterman, Kevin J.; Wood, Jason G.; Medvedik, Oliver; Sinclair, David A. (2003-05-08). "Nicotinamide and PNC1 govern lifespan extension by calorie restriction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae". Nature. 423 (6936): 181–185. Bibcode:2003Natur.423..181A. doi:10.1038/nature01578. ISSN   0028-0836. PMC   4802858 . PMID   12736687.
  7. ↑ Anderson, Rozalyn M.; Latorre-Esteves, Magda; Neves, Ana Rute; Lavu, Siva; Medvedik, Oliver; Taylor, Christopher; Howitz, Konrad T.; Santos, Helena; Sinclair, David A. (2003-12-19). "Yeast life-span extension by calorie restriction is independent of NAD fluctuation". Science. 302 (5653): 2124–2126. Bibcode:2003Sci...302.2124A. doi:10.1126/science.1088697. ISSN   1095-9203. PMC   4998187 . PMID   14605207.
  8. ↑ 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ 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...5.3557C. doi:10.1038/ncomms4557. PMC   3988801 . PMID   24691430.
  10. ↑ 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. PMC   3734859 . PMID   19075044.
  11. ↑ 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.
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  15. ↑ Rogers, Anthony. "Awardees - Nathan Shock Award". prod.geron.org. Archived from the original on 2015-07-21. Retrieved 2015-09-12.
  16. ↑ "Previous Meetings". www.americanagingassociation.org. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  17. ↑ "Oxford Journals | Medicine & Health & Science & Mathematics | The Journals of Gerontology: Series A | Editorial Board - Biological Sciences". www.oxfordjournals.org. Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2015-09-12.
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