At A Glance

Name: Bradford Gibson

Age: 50

Position: Professor and director of chemistry at the Buck Institute for Age Research, since 2000.

Adjunct professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California San Francisco, since 1985.

Background: Post-doc in peptide and protein chemistry and mass spectrometry at Cambridge University, 1983-5.

PhD in chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983.

Worked at Stanford Research Institute, 1976-9.