Prof. Birgit Schilling

Birgit has worked at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2000, where she leads her laboratory as a professor. She is also the Director of the Mass Spectrometry Technology Center at the Buck Institute, specifically focusing on data-independent acquisition technologies and large-scale proteome quantification. Prof. Birgit received her PhD in Germany, and subsequently worked at the University of California San Francisco as a postdoctoral fellow. At the Buck Institute, Prof. Birgit is interested in translational research and any research that may aim toward therapeutic interventions to improve human aging or age-related diseases, specifically neurodegeneration, osteoarthritis, and cancer. Birgit uses modern proteomic technologies to investigate mechanisms of aging, senescence, and cancer, as well as using this knowledge to develop biomarkers and targets for interventions.

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