Impact
Linda Partridge is a geneticist who studies the biology of ageing, both how the rate of ageing evolves in nature and the mechanisms by which healthy lifespan can be extended in laboratory organisms, particularly the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Her work has focused on nutrient-sensing pathways, notably insulin/insulin-like growth factor signalling, and on dietary restriction; her group reported lifespan extension in flies lacking CHICO, an insulin receptor substrate protein. Her current focus is on pharmacological treatments that could improve health broadly during human ageing, and on age-related disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. She was founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne, where she is now Emeritus Founding Director, and she is Weldon Professor of Biometry and a Professorial Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing, which she has directed since 2007. She also promotes ageing research through policy work and science communication; she has served as Biological Secretary of the Royal Society and in 2025 became Chair of Trustees of the UK Research Integrity Office. She was made a DBE in 2009 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996.
Metrics
- h-index 148 · google scholar as of 2026-09-23 source ↗
Research output
821 works · 95,683 citations · h-index 134 OpenAlex ↗
Selected publications
- The Hallmarks of Aging ↗ 2013 · 15,428 citations
- Hallmarks of aging: An expanding universe ↗ 2023 · 6,525 citations
- Extending Healthy Life Span—From Yeast to Humans ↗ 2010 · 3,088 citations
- Ageing as a Risk Factor for Disease ↗ 2012 · 1,933 citations
- Facing up to the global challenges of ageing ↗ 2018 · 1,537 citations