Research: USC Fills Gerontology Post

A Palms resident has been named to a research post at USC’s Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center.

Pamela Larsen, 35, is the first scientist named to the Glenn Foundation Chair in Cellular and Molecular Biology. The foundation, named after Santa Barbara entrepreneur Paul F. Glenn, endowed the chair with $1.5 million to promote research on the molecular and cellular patterns of aging.

“I am quite honored because it’s unusual to (name members of) the junior faculty (to) chairs,” said Larsen, a junior professor of gerontology at USC. “It’s pretty exciting.”