Matt Kaeberlein is an American biologist and biogerontologist best known for his research on evolutionarily conserved mechanisms of aging.
Education
Kaeberlin attended Western Washington University as an undergraduate and received a Bachelor of Surgery in biochemistry and a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics in 1997. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002, advised by Leonard Guarente, and did his post-doctoral work with Stanley Fields in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington.
Career
He is currently a Professor of Pathology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Kaeberlein became an assistant professor at UW in 2006, an associate professor in 2011, and a full professor in 2015. In 2011, he was named the Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star in Aging Research by the American Federation for Aging Research and appointed as a General Services Administration Fellow.
Kaeberlein was also recognized asan Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year in 2010.
Kaeberlein is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Biochemistry at the Aging Research Institute of Guangdong Medical College in Dongguan, China. He is also the co-Director of the University of Washington Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging, the Director of SAGEWEB, and the founding Director of the Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute at the University of Washington.
Honors and American Aging Association Gerontological Society of America.