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.

Brunet has received numerous honors, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2025, an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award in 2025 and 2012, the NOMIS Award in 2023, the Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences in 2022, and an NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award in 2018. Additional recognitions include the Bennett J. Cohen Award for Research in Aging in 2014, the Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star in Aging Research Award in 2012, the Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar Award in 2009, and the Pfizer/American Federation for Aging Research Innovation in Aging Research Award in 2005. She has published extensively on topics including chromatin modifiers, transgenerational inheritance of lifespan extension, neural stem cells, and aging trajectories in vertebrate models.