Nutritionist
Regional Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Lecture on 08.07.2004
Curriculum vitae
Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin and an investigator with the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center at the VA Hospital in Madison. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Biology at the University of Illinois (Urbana) and his Ph.D. (1978) in Experimental Pathology at UCLA under the direction of Dr. Roy L. Walford. For more than 25 years, Dr. Weindruch has studied caloric restriction (CR), which is known to slow the aging process in experimental animals such as mice and rats. He is the author of two books, more than 75 peer-reviewed research reports, 55 review articles and conference reports. For his research accomplishments, Dr. Weindruch received the 1998 Kleemeir Award from the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the 2000 Harman Award from the American Aging Association, the 2000 Nathan Shock Award from the National Institute on Aging and the 2000 Glenn Foundation Award from GSA. He is a past president of the American Aging Association (1994), former chairman of the Biological Sciences Section of GSA (1996) as well as a former member and chairman of the National Institutes of Health Geriatrics and Rehabilitation Medicine Study Section (1994 - 1999).
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bibliography
He is the author of more than 75 peer-reviewed research reports, 25 review articles, 30 conference reports, 5 invited commentaries and more than 120 abstracts.
- Weindruch R, Walford RL: The Retarding of Aging and Disease by Dietary Restriction, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield (IL), 1998
- Weindruch R, Hadley EC, Ory M: Reducing Failty and Falls in Older Persons, Charles C. Thomas Springfield (IL), 1991
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