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AFAR in the News: Fox News Interviews Nir Barzilai on Upcoming National Geographic Special

On November 18th, Fox News sat down with Deputy Scientific Director Nir Barzilai, MD to discuss the upcoming National Geographic Chanel special “Breakthrough: The Aging of Aging” (http://www.afar.org/natgeo) and AFAR facilitated Taming Aging with Metformin (TAME) study. The interview also highlighted AFAR as the go-to resource for information on the TAME study and science behind the biology of aging.

View the full interview below:

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

On November 29th, AFAR Scientific Director Steven Austad, PhD; Deputy Scientific Director Nir Barzilai, MD; and Board Members James Kirkland, MD, PhD and S. Jay Olshansky, PhD will be featured in the Ron Howard-directed National Geographic special “Breakthrough: The Age of Aging”. Learn more here.

Nir Barzilai, MD, is the Director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a two-time AFAR grant recipient.

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