Rate My Professor Anne Brunet

Anne Brunet is the Michele and Timothy Barakett Endowed Professor in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine. She earned a B.Sc. in Molecular Biology from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from the University of Nice in France in 1997. She completed postdoctoral training in neuroscience at Harvard Medical School in 2003. Brunet has been a faculty member at Stanford since 2004, where she also serves as co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Biology of Aging. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of aging and longevity, with particular emphasis on the nervous system. Her laboratory investigates pathways that delay aging in response to external stimuli such as nutrient availability and social cues, mechanisms of stem cell rejuvenation, and the use of the African killifish as a vertebrate model for studying aging and age-related diseases. She is a member of Bio-X, the Cardiovascular Institute, the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, the Stanford Cancer Institute, and the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance.