Heinrich Jasper

Heinrich "Henri" Jasper (born February 1, 1974) is a German-American biologist at Buck Institute for Research on Aging. He was formerly a professor of biology at The University of Rochester. He studies aging, stem cell function, and tissue regeneration.

Biography Jasper received his diploma in biochemistry sehr gut in December 1998 from the University of Tübingen, Germany. While there, he worked as a laboratory assistant in the laboratory of R.A.W. Rupp and wrote his diploma thesis on the 'Identification of target genes of the myogenic transcription factor MyoD in Xenopus laevis.' He was also a research student at the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Neurobiology in Munich, Germany. In October 2002, he received a PhD in Biology summa cum laude from the University of Heidelberg, Germany for his work at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory under Dr. Dirk Bohmann titled 'Analysis of signaling and cell differentiation events in Drosophila development by genome-wide expression profiling.'

From 2018-2019, Jasper served as President of the American Aging Association. He is a member of the Editorial Board for Current Biology.

Honors and awards Glenn Foundation Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging (2010) Wilmot Assistant Professorship in Arts, Sciences and Engineering (2009) The Ellison Medical Foundation: Senior Scholar Award in Aging (2008)