Fred H. Gage, PhD

Dr. Gage is a Professor in the Laboratory of Genetics at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Gage’s laboratory currently studies neurogenesis, modeling of various neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders, neuronal mosaicism and diversity, human evolution, and somatic retrotransposition. He received both his MS and PhD from Johns Hopkins University, where he also served as an NIMH Predoctoral Fellow. In 2024, Dr. Gage was recognized as the recipient of the J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine and the Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize.