On October 31st, 2025, TIME spotlighted the AFAR SuperAgers Family Study in an interview with Board Member, Multiple Grantee, and Study Co-Investigator Nir Barzilai, MD. Dr. Barzilai spoke on a wide range of advances in aging research and geroscience.
The SuperAgers Family Study, led by AFAR in collaboration with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Boston University School of Medicine, aims to collect data from a large group of individuals who have lived to age 95 or more. The Study's goal is to understand and uncover the biological factors contributing to healthy aging and exceptional longevity shared among SuperAgers and their families.
Learn more and enroll in the SuperAgers Family Study here.
In addition to serving on AFAR’s Board of Directors, 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 Co-Investigator of the AFAR SuperAgers Family Study and the AFAR FAST Initiative. 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.
Read the interview, “How to Die Young at a Very Old Age,” here.
