Loretta Mayer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University
Dr. Mayer served as SenesTech’s Chief Executive Officer until 2007, and has served as Chairman of the Board since July 2004. After 20 years in the business world, Loretta returned to school and received both Master’s (1997) and Ph.D. (1999) degrees in Biology from Northern Arizona University. She accepted a post-doctoral appointment with the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona in 1999 and it was there that she co-developed a chemical method of inducing peri- and post-menopause in rodents. Loretta is the co-inventor of a patent for the Mouseopause™ model, which is currently available to research and educational institutions worldwide.
An Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Northern Arizona University since 2003, Loretta is also the Director of the Center for Applied Research in Environmental Endocrinology at Northern Arizona University. She was awarded the 2003 American Heart Association’s Jr. Investigator Award for Women and the Glenn Foundation Endocrinology and Aging Award, 2004 for her work using the Mouseopause™ model.