Department of Medicine
University of Wisconsin
RICHARD H WEINDRUCH
Contact Information
2500 OVERLOOK TERRACE
MADISON, WI 53705
Biography
Education:
1972
BS (Biology), University of Illinois, Urbana
1973
MS (Biology), Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
1978
PhD (Exptl. Pathology), UCLA. Dissertation: "Effects of Controlled Dietary Restriction and Immunoactive Drugs on Immunologic Aging in Mice." Advisor: Roy Walford
Current Appointments:
1996 - present
Professor, Dept. Medicine (Section of Geriatrics & Gerontology), UW-Madison
1992 - present
Director, Aging Research Group, Wisc. Regional Primate Res. Center, UW-Madison
1991 - present
Investigator, Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), VA Hospital, Madison; Director, GRECC Cell & Molecular Biology Laboratory; Director, Shared Aging Rodent Facility; Member, UW-Madison Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dr. Richard Weindruch is a 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 BS and MS in Biology at the University of Illinois (Urbana) and his PhD (1978) in Experimental Pathology at UCLA under the direction of Dr. Roy Walford. For more than 25 years, he has studied caloric restriction, which is known to slow the aging process in experimental animals. Dr. Weindruch's laboratory is investigating three main questions:
- How does CR retard aging and diseases in mice and rats?
- Does CR retard aging in monkeys?
- Can substances which mimic CR's actions be discovered?
Dr. Weindruch is the author of two books, more than 75 peer-reviewed research reports and 55 review articles. He has received several awards for his research including the Gerontological Society of America's Kleemeir Award (1998), the Glenn Foundation Award (2000) and the National Institute on Aging's Nathan Shock Award (2000). From 1994 to 1999 he served as Chairman of NIH's Geriatrics and Rehabilitation Medicine Study Section.
Search for Richard Weindruch's literature abstracts on PubMed
Kayo T, Allison DB, Weindruch R, Prolla TA: Influences of aging and caloric restriction on the transcriptional profile of skeletal muscle from rhesus monkeys. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98:5093-8, 2001.
Lee C-K, Weindruch R, Prolla TA: Gene expression profile of the ageing brain. Nat. Genet. 25:294-297, 2000.
Lee C-K, Klopp RG, Weindruch R, Prolla TA: Gene expression profile of aging and its retardation by caloric restriction. Science 285:1390-1393, 1999.
Weindruch R, Sohal RS: Caloric intake and aging. N. Eng. J. Med. 337:986-94, 1997.
Weindruch R: Caloric restriction and aging. Sci. Am. 274:46-52, 1996.