Tom Kirkwood

Thomas Burton Loram Kirkwood CBE (born July 6, 1951 in Durban , South Africa ) is a British biologist and gerontologist .

Career

Kirkwood studied biology and mathematics at Cambridge and Oxford . From 1981 to 1993 he worked at the National Institute for Medical Research . In 1993 he became Britain's first professor of biogerontology at the University of Manchester . In 1999 he was appointed to Newcastle University . There he is co-director of the Institute for Aging and Health and head of the gerontology department.

Work areas

Kirkwood has been involved in gerontology since 1975. In 1977 he set up the disposable soma theory as a model for the evolution of aging .

In 2009, Kirkwood became Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 2011 he received the Longevity Prize from the IPSEN Foundation .

Publications (selection)

• Time of Our Lives - Why Aging Is Biologically Unnecessary. Aufbau-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-351-02509-0
• Evolution of aging. In: Mech Aging Dev 123, 2002, pp. 737-745. PMID 11869731 (Review)
• Gerontology: Healthy old age. In: Nature 455, 2008, pp. 739-740. PMID 18843351
• A systematic look at an old problem. In: Nature 451, 2008, pp. 644-647. PMID 18256658
• Aging: too fast by mistake. In: Nature 444, 2006, pp. 1015-1017. PMID 17183304
• with DP Shanley: Food restriction, evolution and aging. In: Mech Aging Dev 126, 2005, pp. 1011-1016. PMID 15893805 (Review)
• with CE Finch: Aging: the old worm turns more slowly. In: Nature 419, 2002, pp. 794-795. PMID 12397339
• with SN Austad: Why do we age? In: Nature 408, 2000, pp. 233-238. PMID 11089980 (Review)
• Ovarian aging and the general biology of senescence. In: Maturitas 30, 1998, pp. 105-111. PMID 9871904 (Review)
• with RG Westendorp Human longevity at the cost of reproductive success. In: Nature 396, 1998, pp. 743-746. PMID 9874369
• Paths to immortality and back. In: Nature 308, 1984, p. 226. PMID 6700724
• Evolution of aging. In: Nature 279, 1977, pp. 301-304. PMID 593350

Web links

• Kirkwood's website at Newcastle University
• Kirkwood biography (English)
• Tom Kirkwood: Time of our Lives. Why aging is biologically nonsensical book review in Die Zeit

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: London Gazette (Supplement), December 31, 2008, p. 7.