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Morgan Levine

Morgan Levine

Computational scientist and entrepreneur (building in AI x biology) · Not publicly disclosed

San Francisco, CA, United States

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Impact

Morgan Levine is a computational scientist known for developing widely used methods to quantify biological age. As first author of a 2018 paper in Aging, she introduced DNAm PhenoAge, an epigenetic biomarker trained on a clinical-chemistry measure of phenotypic age that predicts lifespan and healthspan better than earlier chronological-age clocks; she also co-authored the 2019 GrimAge clock paper. She led a laboratory at Yale School of Medicine that applied computational and experimental approaches to the molecular mechanisms of biological ageing, then served as VP of Computation at Altos Labs, where her work used machine learning to model how molecular changes propagate across cells, tissues, organs and organisms. In August 2026 she announced she was leaving Altos Labs; according to her ARDD 2026 speaker biography she is now building multimodal, multi-scale, multispecies world models of biology, and her new organisation has not been publicly named. She is the author of the general-audience book True Age (Penguin Random House), which presents the science of biological age and ways to measure and influence it.

Metrics

  • h-index 57 · google scholar as of 2026-09-23 source ↗
  • 21,139 followers on X as of 2026-09-23 source ↗
  • 7,693 followers on Instagram as of 2026-09-23 source ↗
  • 727 on facebook as of 2026-09-23 source ↗

Research output

198 works · 20,883 citations · h-index 57 OpenAlex ↗

Selected publications

Links

Google Scholar ↗LinkedIn ↗X ↗ARDD 2026 speaker page ↗Former Yale lab site (ALIS) ↗

Research fields

Epigenetic aging clocks
Sources & review · profile last updated 2026-09-29