Anne Brunet (born on November 8)[1] is a French geneticist who is the Michele and Timothy Barakett Endowed Professor and the co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Biology of Aging at Stanford University School of Medicine.
[2] Brunet is from Bellegarde sur Valserine, France, uses red wine as an anti-aging strategy, and plays piano and violin.
Next, she studies how conserved 'pro-longevity genes' (e.g. FOXO transcription factors) regulate longevity in mammals, the regenerative potential of stem cells, and the nervous system.
In addition, she is developing the extremely short-lived African killifish N. furzeri as a new vertebrate model for aging.
[1][5] The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awarded a $525,000 research grant to Brunet, along with colleagues Ami Bhatt and K. Christopher Garcia, for their project "Analyzing how inflammation affects the aging brain.