Della David

Since 2022, Della David is a group leader in the Signalling department at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK. Before that, she was a group leader at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Tübingen and then at the Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Germany. The ultimate goal of her lab is to discover mechanisms to promote healthy ageing and alleviate age-related diseases. During her postdoc with Cynthia Kenyon at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA (2006-2011), Della identified several hundred proteins that accumulate in aberrant aggregates both inside and outside of cells in ageing C. elegans in the absence of disease processes. Since then, her group has been studying age-dependent protein aggregation with the aim of uncovering endogenous mechanisms to prevent aggregation. A key recent study of her group characterised the extracellular proteostasis network in C. elegans. She has been awarded several fellowships from the American Federation for Aging Research, Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research, Larry L. Hillblom Foundation and Swiss National Science Foundation.