Laura Niedernhofer
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Laura Niedernhofer is Director of the Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism at the University of Minnesota, where she is also a professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics. Prior to that she was at the Scripps Research Institute, where she helped develop a new class of drugs called senolytics. These are drugs which selectively kill senescent cells, which are a key driver of aging.