Trygve Tollefsbol is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the department of Biology.
[4] Tollefsbol has contributed chapters on epigenetics in Lewin's Genes, one of the leading and most well-known international textbooks in molecular biology and has published over 200 scientific articles.
[5] Tollefsbol received an unsolicited grant award from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research for his research on the mechanisms of biological aging and served for many years as Associate Editor of Frontiers in Genetics, a leading international journal in his area, and was awarded Outstanding Associate Editor in 2021.
He has served as chair and/or panel member for grant Study Sections for the NIH Center for Scientific Review on multiple occasions.
Tollefsbol married fellow scientist Lucy G. Andrews in 1990 who collaborated with him on many of his studies.