About Us
Lorna Hariies, PhD
Science Advisory Board
Professor Lorna Harries holds a personal chair in Molecular Genetics at the University of Exeter Medical School and a role as co-founder, director and Chief Scientific Officer at SENISCA Ltd., a spin out company from the University of Exeter. She also heads the AFRUK Animal Free Research Centre of Excellence (ARC 2.0). Lorna gained her PhD from University College London in 1994. She has authored over 168 peer reviewed research publications and was awarded the Proteomass Lifetime Career Award in 2021 for her work on the links between cellular ageing and dysregulated alternative splicing. The Harries team have interests in -omics approaches to the study of ageing and age-related disease processes in humans. Her work takes a genes-to-systems approach, ranging from ‘big data’ analyses to detailed individual molecular analysis of particular genes and encompasses projects on cellular senescence and cell identity in the context of ageing and its diseases, and specifically the role of RNA processing and small RNA regulation.