Gabriele Saretzki
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Biography
Gabriele Saretzki has completed her PhD at Humboldt University, Berlin and performed most of her Postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Ageing and Health in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) where she is a Lecturer in Ageing Research since 2002. Her main research interests include “Telomeres, telomerase, senescence, ageing, oxidative stress and mitochondria”. She has pioneered work on non-canonical functions of the telomerase protein TERT shifting her focus recently to brain ageing and neurodegenerative diseases. She has published more than 84 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is an Editorial Board Member of BMC Biology, PLOS One and Oxidative Medicine and Cellular longevity.