Jennifer Garrison, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Faculty Director of the Global Consortium for Female Reproductive Longevity and Equality, and Associate Director of the Buck-USC Biology of Aging PhD Program. She holds secondary appointments in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California (USC). Her lab studies how coordinated communication between tissues sets up a delicate balance across all your organs – she thinks that disruptions in communication between the brain and the rest of the body lead to systemic aging. In particular, she wants to understand the complex interactions between the ovary and brain during middle-age and to identify the neuronal factors that lead to the onset of reproductive decline in females. Dr. Garrison received her BA in Molecular Cell Biology from UC Berkeley, completed her PhD at UCSF in Chemistry and Chemical Biology where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow and an ARCS Scholar, and was a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rockefeller University. She was named an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Neuroscience Research Fellow and an Allen Institute for Brain Science Next Generation Leader and is the recipient of a Pathway to Independence Award and a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators from the National Institutes of Health, a Glenn Medical Foundation Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging, and a Junior Faculty Award from the American Federation of Aging Research.

The Buck Institute: The first independent biomedical research institute dedicated solely to aging and age-related disease, the Buck has brought together many of the world’s leading aging scientists over 20 years. Touting an unparalleled evidence-based approach to its research, the Buck aims to end the threat of age-related disease for this and future generations. The Buck’s new initiatives focused on Reproductive Longevity and Equality are tackling these challenges head-on, reframing women’s health to encompass both reproductive span and longevity, and striving to help women globally maximize health from the womb to long after menopause. To learn more, read the whitepaper on this topic, The Unspoken Truth. This initiative, by focusing research on understanding how and why women go through reproductive decline in mid-life, particularly in the context of human aging biology, has the potential to dramatically and significantly improve the health and well-being of women worldwide. We aim to balance the inequities women face managing family, career and health decisions. Understanding the limits on mammalian female reproductive capacity will provide important clues about aging in other tissues

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