Background
Fields, Stanley was born on July 29, 1955 in Brooklyn. Son of Arthur and Mina Fields.
Fields, Stanley was born on July 29, 1955 in Brooklyn. Son of Arthur and Mina Fields.
Fields was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 1981 for research carried out in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) with Greg Winter and George Brownlee.
He is currently a professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Along with Matt Kaeberlein and Brian Kennedy, Fields has carried out genome-wide screens for aging genes in yeast. Kaeberlein and co-workers have questioned the hypothesis that lifespan extension from caloric restriction is mediated by Sirtuins.
Instead Kaeberlein, Fields, and Kennedy have proposed that caloric restriction increases lifespan by decreasing the activity of the Target of Rapamycin (TOR) kinase.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Society Microbiology, American Society Biochemistry Molecular Biology (Young Investigator award 1993).
Married Jane Elizabeth Schwarzer, May 19, 1985. Children: Paul Arthur, Timothy Jay, Benjamin Cape.