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AFAR Experts in the News: James L. Kirkland, MD, PhD, Valter Longo, PhD, and David Sinclair, PhD, A.O, on advancements that could extend healthspan and delay age-related diseases in TIME

AFAR Experts in the News: James L. Kirkland, MD, PhD, Valter Longo, PhD, and David Sinclair, PhD, A.O, on advancements that could extend healthspan and delay age-related diseases in TIME

On March 12th, 2025, Time published an article on advancements that could extend healthspan and delay age-related diseases that featured insights from AFAR Board Member and grantee James L. Kirkland, MD, PhD, Cristofalo Award recipient and grantee Valter Longo, PhD, and Irving S. Wright Award recipient and grantee David Sinclair, PhD, A.O. The piece highlighted various areas of aging research including Senolytics, Periodic Fasting Regimens, and Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy.

Dr. Kirkland is an AFAR board Member, recent a 2020 Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction recipient and a 2012 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG) Award recipient.

Dr. Longo is a 1998 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Grants for Junior Faculty recipient, as well as the 2013 Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star Award in Aging Research winner. He is also the Edna M. Jones Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences and Director of the Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Sinclair is a 2000 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Grants for Junior Faculty recipient, and the 2018 Irving S. Wright Award recipient. He is also a Professor in the Department of Genetics at the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School.

Also picked up by MSN, read the Time article, “The Scientific Search for Youth”, here.

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