On November 25th, The Washington Post published an article featuring insights from AFAR President Thomas A. Rando, MD, PhD, as well as Board Member and multiple-grantee Nir Barzilai, MD, and Cristofalo Award winner Morgan Levine, PhD. The article explores new research focused on how different parts of the body may biologically age at different rates.
Dr. Rando and Dr. Barzilai highlighted the importance of developing biomarkers of aging from this research. Dr. Levine explored the potential impact of studying the mechanisms behind the differential aging rates of various organs could have on treating or delaying age-related diseases and extending healthspan.
Dr. Barzilai is a 1997 Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging scholar and a 1994 AFAR Research Grant recipient, as well as the Co-Investigator of the AFAR SuperAgers Family Study, an AFAR Board Member, and author of Age Later: Health Span, Life Span and the New Science of Longevity. He also directs the Institute for Aging Research at the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Human Aging Research, and the Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Dr. Levine is the 2021 Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star Award in Aging Research recipient and has served as a member of the National Scientific Advisory Council (NSAC) since 2020. She is a Vice President of Computation at Altos Labs and a former professor in the School of Medicine at Yale University.
Dr. Rando is a 2008 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG) Award recipient, and a 1999 Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging recipient. He is also the Director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA and a Professor of Neurology and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at UCLA.
Read the article with a subscription, “Why your organs may be aging faster (or slower) than the rest of you,” here.
