Jennifer Garrison

Jennifer Garrison, Ph.D., is Co-Founder and Director of the Global Consortium for Female Reproductive Longevity & Equality (GCRLE), is an Assistant Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, and also holds appointments in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California (USC). A passionate advocate for women’s health and currently pioneering a new movement to advance science focused on female reproductive aging, Dr. Garrison completed her Ph.D. at UCSF in Chemistry and Chemical Biology where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow and an ARCS Scholar.

She was later a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rockefeller University, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Neuroscience Research Fellow, and an Allen Institute for Brain Science Next Generation Leader. She is the recipient of a Pathway to Independence Award, a MIRA Award for Early Stage Investigators from the National Institutes of Health, a Glenn Medical Foundation Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging, and a Junior Faculty Award from the American Federation of Aging Research.