Anja Holtz is a research associate in the Schilling Lab at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging focusing on basic aging and age-related disease research in Novato, California. In 2017, Anja Holtz received her undergraduate degrees in genetics and cell biology from the University of Minnesota and spent three years studying breast cancer under the leadership of Dr. Yee at the Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota prior to relocating to California.