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Board Member in the News: Nir Barzilai discusses healthspan and geroprotectors with Great.com global podcast

Board Member in the News: Nir Barzilai discusses healthspan and geroprotectors with Great.com global podcast

On April 19, 2021, Great.com podcast featured an interview with AFAR expert Nir Barzilai, MD.

Dr. Barzilai discussed AFAR’s work to advance and support healthy aging through biomedical research and the exciting potential of the TAME Trial and geroprotectors and therapeutics to extend healthspan.

Dr. Barzilai is AFAR’s Scientific Director, a 1994 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Grants for Junior Faculty recipient, a 1997 Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging scholar, a 2010 Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction recipient, and the Director at the Institute for Aging Research and distinguished Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Watch Dr. Barzilai’s interview here.

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