Cynthia Kenyon
American molecular biologist
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Cynthia 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. Wikipedia
Born: 1954 (age 70 years), Chicago, IL
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1981), University of Georgia, and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Known for: Aging in C. elegans
Awards: Dan David Prize and Dickson Prize