{"id":46271,"date":"2024-01-25T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermont.salk.edu\/?post_type=disclosure&p=46271"},"modified":"2024-01-25T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T21:03:27","slug":"salk-institute-names-jan-karlseder-as-chief-science-officer","status":"publish","type":"disclosure","link":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/salk-institute-names-jan-karlseder-as-chief-science-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Salk Institute names Jan Karlseder as Chief Science Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

LA JOLLA\u2014The Salk Institute has named Jan Karlseder<\/a> as its new senior vice president and chief science officer (CSO). Karlseder, a professor in Salk\u2019s Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research, and Donald and Darlene Shiley Chair for Research on Aging, will assume the role on February 1, 2024.<\/p>\n

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Karlseder\u2019s selection is the result of a competitive, international search led by executive recruitment firm Spencer Stuart and an internal search committee, which evaluated a large pool of highly qualified candidates over the past 10 months.<\/p>\n

As CSO, he will maintain his faculty position and research laboratory while working with Salk President Gerald Joyce<\/a> to develop and implement the Institute\u2019s overall scientific strategy, as well as oversee research operations in support of this strategy, including the grants development, scientific core facilities, and animal resources teams. Karlseder succeeds Professor Greg Lemke, who served as CSO since April 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CSO plays a critical role in supporting the faculty, elevating our research, and identifying new opportunities for partnerships and research funding,\u201d Joyce says. \u201cWe had a long list of qualities we sought in a CSO and Jan fulfills them all\u2014he is an internationally recognized scientist, admired leader, and excellent communicator, and he has experience in philanthropy. We are grateful to Jan for accepting this role, and I\u2019m excited to see what we\u2019ll accomplish together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Karlseder has been a member of Salk\u2019s faculty since 2001. His current research focuses on telomeres\u2014the caps at the ends of chromosomes that shorten as we get older. Telomeres regulate genome stability, inflammation, cancer initiation, and other crucial cell activities. Karlseder believes that a better understanding of telomere integrity and length regulation will lead to a deeper understanding of the aging process and age-related disease, as well as help uncover new ways to inhibit cancer.<\/p>\n

Karlseder has received numerous awards and honors, including the V Foundation Award for Developing Scientists, a Forbeck Scholar Award, and the Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging. He earned his BS in Biology at the University of Innsbruck and PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Vienna in Austria. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Rockefeller University in New York.<\/p>\n

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