Cox, who was appointed the George Moody Fellow at Oriel College in 1996, is the principal investigator of Cox Lab of Ageing and Cell Senescence at the Department of Biochemistry.

She is also the Program Director of the Dynamic Resilience programme, which is jointly funded by Wellcome Leap and the Temasek Trust, a global asset management company. The aim of the programme is to find and validate new measures of the resilience of individuals to “stress events” such as surgery and illness.

In 2023, Cox was awarded the Lord Cohen Medal by the British Society for Research on Ageing for her “outstanding achievements and contributions to understanding the biology of ageing”.

Lord Mendoza, Provost of Oriel College, said: “I congratulate Professor Lynne Cox on her new title conferred by the Medical Sciences Division. Lynne has taught students at Oriel College for almost three decades as a Fellow.

“She is a leading figure in the science of ageing. There is a direct line between her pioneering research and people living healthier, happier lives for longer.”

Oriel College has funding in place to offer scholarships to doctoral students doing research in the field of longevity, ageing and cell senescence. The two recipients of the scholarship to date are both members of Oxford University’s Alsaleh Lab, which sent samples of human tissue in the form of organoids to space to study ageing.