Donald K. Ingram

Dr. Ingram was trained in psychology and gerontology at the University of Georgia where he received his Ph.D. in 1978. From 1978-79 he served as a National Institute of Mental Health-supported postdoctoral fellow in behavior genetics at the Jackson Laboratory. He came to the NIA in 1980 as a Staff Fellow in the Laboratory of Behavioral Sciences and then moved to the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology in a tenured position in 1985. He was appointed as Chief of the Behavioral Neuroscience Section in 2000 when he joined the Laboratory of Neurosciences. In 2002 he was appointed Acting Chief of the newly created Laboratory of Experimental Gerontology (LEG). The LEG conducts basic research in experimental models focused on interventions that retard aging processes. Dr. Ingram serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Neurobiology of Aging, Experimental Aging Research, Rejuvenation Research, and CNS Drug Reviews, and he is an editor for Gerontology and Editor-in-Chief of AGE, The Journal of the American Aging Association. He has also served in numerous positions within the Biology Section of the Gerontological Society of America, and he is a past president of the American Aging Association as well as the 2003 recipient of the Harman Research Award from the Association.