AFAR is pleased to announce that Board Member Nir Barzilai, MD, has been elected to the Association of American Physicians (AAP), one of the most prestigious peer-elected honors in academic medicine.
Election to the AAP is an honor extended to physicians with outstanding credentials in basic or translational biomedical research and is limited to 70 individuals per year. Dr. Barzilai’s induction reflects decades of scientific leadership advancing the field of geroscience.
In addition to serving on AFAR’s Board of Directors, Dr. Barzilai is the 2010 recipient of the Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction, a 1997 Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging scholar, and a 1994 AFAR Research Grant recipient, as well as Co-Investigator of the AFAR SuperAgers Family Study, the AFAR FAST Initiative, and the AFAR-managed TAME Trial. He also directs the Institute for Aging Research at the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Human Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is the President of the Academy of Health and Lifespan Research. His book, Age Later: Healthspan, Lifespan, and the New Science of Longevity, was published by Macmillan in 2020.
An induction ceremony will be held on April 18, 2026, as part of the annual AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting.
Learn more about the Association of American Physicians here.
Read AFAR’s Ask the Expert Interview with Dr. Barzilai here.
