Holly Van Remmen

Holly Van Remmen is the Aging & Metabolism Research Program Chair at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and holds the G.T. Blankenship Chair in Aging Research.[1]

Van Remmen attended Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois, and received her bachelor's degree in Zoology in 1983.[2] She then moved to the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio where she received her Ph.D. in Physiology in 1991. She continues as a postdoc at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio under the mentorship of Dr. Arlan Richardson, and joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1995.[2] She earned tenure at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio and was promoted to a tenured full Professor in 2011. In 2013, she moved to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where she became a Member. In 2016, she assumed the Chair of the Aging & Metabolism Research Program Chair at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.[2]

Van Remmen has twice (2005-2006 and 2022-2023[3]) served as President of the American Aging Association, the largest scientific society devoted to the study of the biology of aging in the United States of America.[4][5] In 2021-2022, she served as President of the Society for Redox Biology and Medicine.[6] From 2014-2019, she served as Editor of the journal Redox Biology, and she remains on the Editorial Board.[4] Since 2014, Van Remmen has served as Associate Editor of the Journals of Gerontology Biological Sciences.[7]

Van Remmen's laboratory focuses on the role of oxidative stress in modulating the relationship between motor neurons and skeletal muscle in sarcopenia and on interventions to delay or reduce sarcopenia[8]