AREAS OF SPECIALTY:

• Genome Instability

• cellular senescence

• translational geroscience

Laura Niedernhofer, MD, PhD

Laura Niedernhofer is the Director of the Institute on the Biology of Aging & Metabolism (iBAM) and Medical Discovery Team on the Biology of Aging at the University of Minnesota. She is also a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics at UMN. Dr. Niedernhofer’s expertise is in DNA damage and repair, genome instability disorders, cellular senescence and aging. Her research program is centered on studying fundamental mechanisms of aging and developing therapeutics to target them. Her research program implements a murine model of a human progeroid syndrome caused by a defect in DNA repair. She contributed to the discovery of a new class of drugs called senolytics. Laura has served on study sections for NCI, NIEHS and NIA. She has been awarded for research in aging, cancer and environmental health science.