Gordon Lithgow
A native of Scotland, Dr. Lithgow received his PhD from the University of Glasgow and obtained further training at Ciba Geigy AG in Basel, Switzerland, and at the University of Colorado. He established his lab studying the biology of aging at the University of Manchester, England, before moving it to the Buck Institute in 2000.
Dr. Lithgow has been recognized for his research with a Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging, a senior scholarship from the Ellison Medical Foundation, and the Tenovus Award for Biomedical Research. He has served on many national advisory panels in both the UK and the US, including the National Institute on Aging’s Board of Scientific Counselors, and has served as the chair of biological sciences at the Gerontology Society of America. He has partnered with biotechnology companies in sponsored research and has strong collaborations in preclinical research on diseases such as osteoporosis and Parkinson’s disease.