Consortium Staff

Jennifer Garrison, PhD
Co-Founder & Director
BIOGRAPHY
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 co-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 research focuses on understanding how chemical communication between the brain and other tissues influences aging. The Garrison lab studies interactions between the ovary and brain during middle age to identify the neuronal factors that lead to the onset of reproductive decline.
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.
Her research focuses on understanding how chemical communication between the brain and other tissues influences aging. The Garrison lab studies interactions between the ovary and brain during middle age to identify the neuronal factors that lead to the onset of reproductive decline.
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.

Nicholas Gentry, PhD
Strategy and Operations Manager
BIOGRAPHY
Nich completed his PhD in Biomedical Sciences at UCSF in the laboratory of Drs Ying-Hui Fu and Louis Ptacek. His thesis work centered on two lines of inquiry; the contribution of sleep length-related mutations to the progression of neurodegeneration, and the role of microglia in buffering the brain against the negative consequences of sleep deprivation.
In addition to his scientific background, Nich brings strategy experience consulting with early stage startups (Reservoir Neurosciences) and expertise operating biotech business-focused graduate student organizations (Evexia BioFund, Biotech Connection; Bay Area).
Nich is extremely excited to contribute to the building of the GCRLE and the acceleration of the field of reproductive aging biology; he has always been interested in science with the potential for the greatest positive impact on the greatest number of people. He also hopes his work will help increase male involvement, which will be critical to realizing the immense potential female reproductive aging research has for the world. Nich is excited to be a part of to advancing this incredibly important, underserved initiative.
In addition to his scientific background, Nich brings strategy experience consulting with early stage startups (Reservoir Neurosciences) and expertise operating biotech business-focused graduate student organizations (Evexia BioFund, Biotech Connection; Bay Area).
Nich is extremely excited to contribute to the building of the GCRLE and the acceleration of the field of reproductive aging biology; he has always been interested in science with the potential for the greatest positive impact on the greatest number of people. He also hopes his work will help increase male involvement, which will be critical to realizing the immense potential female reproductive aging research has for the world. Nich is excited to be a part of to advancing this incredibly important, underserved initiative.

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