Richard L. Sprott, PhD, is Executive Director of
the Ellison Medical Foundation. He began his undergraduate studies
at Franklin and Marshall College and completed them at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a BA with
honours in Psychology. After receiving his PhD in Experimental
Psychology (Behavior Genetics) at UNC he went on to a postdoctoral
fellowship in Behavior Genetics at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar
Harbor, Maine. Following two years of teaching at Oakland
University, Dr. Sprott returned to The Jackson Laboratory where he
conducted a research programme on single gene influences on
behaviour and the interaction of ageing variables with those
genes.
After a decade in Maine, Dr. Sprott moved to the National Institute
on Aging where he directed the Institute's programmes on the
Biology of Aging. A major focus of his career has been the
development of animal models for ageing research. He developed a
nationwide research programme on biomarkers of ageing and the
effects of dietary restriction on longevity. He is the author of a
large number of books and articles. He is an internationally
recognised expert on animal model development and plays an active
role in model development in countries around the world. He is the
Past President of the International Biogerontological Resource
Institute (IBRI) in Friuli, Italy.
Dr. Sprott left the National Institute on Aging in 1998 to become
the first Executive Director of the Ellison Medical Foundation,
created to support basic biological and biomedical research on
ageing, and recently expanded to provide similar support for basic
research on infectious diseases of importance in the developed and
developing worlds. The Ellison Medical Foundation is the largest
private foundation source of funding for the biology of ageing,
providing about $28,000,000 per year in grant funds for ageing
research and $12,000,000 for infectious disease research.
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