Birgit Schilling, PhD
Professor, Director of the Mass Spectrometry Center | Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Dr. Birgit Schilling has worked at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2000 as Professor and Director of the Mass Spectrometry Technology Center, specifically focusing on data-independent acquisition technologies and large-scale proteome quantification.
Dr. Schilling received her Ph.D. in Germany and then moved to the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) as a postdoctoral fellow.
Dr. Schilling is interested in translational research and research that may aim toward therapeutic interventions to improve human aging or age-related diseases, specifically osteoarthritis, kidney injury and cancer.
Dr. Schilling uses modern proteomic technologies to investigate mechanisms of aging, senescence and cancer and uses this knowledge to develop biomarkers and targets for interventions.