Dame Linda Partridge
(1950-), Biologist; Weldon Professor of Biometry and Director of the Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College LondonSitter in 2 portraits
Evolutionary biologist Partridge specialises in ageing research. Studying genes and the physiological mechanisms that determine the rate of ageing, much of her research has focused on age related diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. She is the Weldon Professor of Biometry at University College London, where she is also director of the university's Institute of Healthy Ageing. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996, she was also appointed DBE in 2009 and CBE in 2013 for services to science.
by Robert Taylor
bromide print, January 2009
NPG x134447
by David Vintiner
chromogenic print, 27 June 2013
NPG x138994
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