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Laura Haynes, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
UConn Health School of Medicine
Farmington, Connecticut, United States

Laura Haynes, Ph.D. is a tenured Professor in the Center on Aging and the Department of Immunology in the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She received her B.S. from the University of Miami and her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. She moved to UConn Health in 2013 from the Trudeau Institute in upstate New York. Her science has focused on how aging impacts the immune response, including the response to vaccinations. She employs both animal and human model systems in her laboratory. As a young investigator, she conducted pioneering studies into the influence of aging on CD4 T cells and how this impacts the response to vaccination and influenza infection. Recently, she has investigated how aging impacts the response of skeletal muscle to influenza infection and how this is related to subsequent physical disability in older individuals. Ongoing studies in her laboratory also include the examination of how senescence impacts the function of the immune system and the response to influenza infection.

Dr. Haynes has had continuous NIH funding since she became a faculty member in 2022. In addition, she has served on numerous NIH review panels and is currently an elected member of the Board of Directors for the Gerontological Society of America. She serves as the Field Chief Editor for Frontiers in Aging and is a Deputy Editor for the Journal of Gerontology series A. She is also the current President of UCHC-AAUP, the UConn Health faculty union. She lives in a house in the woods in Simsbury, CT.

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