SuperAgers Insights

Read: "How to Live Better, Longer: The Ultimate Secrets of Superagers" in Prevention
April 9, 2024

Read: The Washington Post spotlights SuperAgers Family Study participant Madeline Paldo in "They’ve lived 100 years. Here’s their advice about everything."
February 2, 2024

Read: Co-Investigator Nir Barzilai, MD, lends insights on SuperAgers and our study to MedPage feature, "Is President Biden a Super-Ager?— Experts say 'age is a number, not a quality'"
January 10, 2024

Read: Chicago Sun Times highlights SuperAgers Family Study and Co-Investigator Nir Barzilai, MD in "SuperAgers like the late Norman Lear show us how aging could be, with researchers now trying to learn more"
January 5, 2024

Read: Yahoo! News spotlights SuperAger Family Study enrollee Dorothy Boucek and PI Sofiya Milman, MD, Ms featured in article,"Arizona woman being studied by scientists looking for secrets to a long life"
November 24, 2023

Watch: Fox10 Phoenix spotlights SuperAger Family Study enrollee Dorothy Boucek and PI Sofiya Milman, MD, Ms featured in article,"Arizona woman being studied by scientists looking for secrets to a long life"
November 24, 2023

Read: SuperAgers Family Study enrollee Madeline Paldo and PI Sofiya Milman, MD, MS featured in Fortune Well article, "What SuperAgers can teach us about fighting off age-related diseases"
November 19, 2023

Watch: SuperAgers Family Study PI Sofiya Milman, MD, MS and AFAR Scientific Director Nir Barzilai on the SuperAgers Family Study in new Fortune Well video,
"Here’s how scientists at the cutting edge of aging research are working to extend ‘health span’"
November 16, 2023

Read: SuperAgers Family Study featured in AARP article exploring multiple studies with SuperAgers and Centenarians
November 10, 2023

Watch: Interview featuring SuperAgers Family Study Principal Investigator Sofiya Milman, MD, MS, on Progress, Potential, and Possibilities podcast.
October 25, 2023

Watch: "Study investigates links between genes and longevity" featuring SuperAgers Family Study Principal Investigator Sofiya Milman, MD, MS, on NBC Chicago.
October 2, 2023

Read: "I went to a longevity conference where biohackers try to cheat death. But I found the real secret to anti-aging an hour away in Loma Linda" featuring SuperAgers Family Study Principal Investigator Sofiya Milman, MD, MS, in Insider
September 23, 2023

Read: "100-year-old who worked from age 18 to 99 on how staying busy helped her live a long life" featuring SuperAgers Family Study Principal Investigator Sofiya Milman, MD, MS, on CNBC Make It
September 18, 2023

Watch: "Researchers studying 'superagers' looking for participants" featuring SuperAgers Family Study Principal Investigator Sofiya Milman, MD, MS, on Fox 32 Chicago
September 12, 2023

Read: "Are you 95 and fit? This ‘SuperAgers’ study wants to hear from you" featuring SuperAgers Family Study Principal Investigator Sofiya Milman, MD, MS, on Market Watch
September 6, 2023

Read: "Meet the 96-year-old Philly geneticist who wants you to know ‘SuperAgers’ are ‘not old and decrepit or whatever’" feature in The Philadelphia Inquirer, spotlighting SuperAgers Family Study and PI Sofiya Milman, MD, MS
August 24, 2023

Read: "The oldest living person in Texas just turned 114: Here’s why doctors say she’s ‘done everything right’" featuring SuperAgers Family Study Co-Investigator Thomas Perls, MD, MPH, on CNBC
August 14, 2023

Read: "SuperAger Initiative: Unlocking the Genetic Potential of Exceptional Longevity" by SuperAgers Family Study PI Sofiya Milman, MD, MS, in Nature Aging
May 18, 2023

Read: "At 100 years old, I’m the ‘world’s oldest practicing doctor’—5 things I never do to live a long, happy life" on CNBC Make It
April 11, 2023

Read: "Immune System May Hold Secret to Living to 100" on HealthDay featuring AFAR Senior Scientific Director Steven N. Austad, PhD, and Scientific Director Nir Barzilai, MD
April 6, 2023

Read: "More Floridians are turning 100. How have we covered their stories?" in the Tampa Bay Times
March 16, 2023

Read: "More People are Living to be 100: Here's Why" on The Hill featuring SuperAger Study Co-Investigator Tom Perls, MD, MPH
February 7, 2023

Watch: "SuperAger study of those 95 years of age and older to help new longevity drugs" on WXII, Winston-Salem
February 3, 2023

Read: Senior living ‘SuperAgers’ among recruits for study on ‘exceptional longevity’ on McKnight's Senior Living
February 3, 2023

Read: "Calling All SuperAgers" post Buck Institute for Research on Aging blog
January 17, 2023

Watch: SuperAgers Family Study Co-Investigator Tom Perls, MD, MPH discusses the study in segment on Boston 25 News
November 28, 2022

Read: SuperAgers Family study, PI Sofia Milman, MD, MS, and Co-Investigator Tom Perls, MD, MPH, highlighted in Boston Globe feature, "The secret to longer, healthier life? Ambitious new trial focuses on ‘super agers’ and seeks thousands of families"
November 27, 2022

Read: Sofiya Milman, MD, MS, Principal Investigator of the SuperAgers Study, discusses the study in a Daily Beast feature, "This May Be Our Best Chance to Find the Secret to Longevity."
November 17, 2022

Watch: Nir Barzilai, MD, AFAR Scientific Director, presents the lecture "The Genetics of Exceptional Longevity" at the 2022 Aging and Drug Discovery Conference | Copenhagen
October 24, 2022

Listen: Sofiya Milman, MD, MS, Director of Human Longevity Studies at the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, discusses research advances in longevity studies and the aims of the “SuperAgers Initiative” on NPR Connecticut’s “Where We Live”
September 21, 2022

Read: AFAR Scientific Director Nir Barzilai, MD, talks with Longevity Technology about the SuperAgers Initiative and discovering the science behind exceptional longevity
August 4, 2022

Watch: "Science and Community," webinar launching the initiative and featuring a brief overview of research on advanced aging by principal investigator Sofiya Milman, MD, MS, in addition to the perspectives of a NYC-based SuperAger, Elaine Oster, and her daughter, Debbi Marcus. Moderated by Moderated by Kaiser Health News reporter Judith Graham
June 30, 2022

Listen: AFAR Scientific Director Nir Barzilai, MD, discusses SuperAgers on the BBC podcast, The Inquiry
June 9, 2022

Watch: Sofiya Milman, MD, MS, Director of Human Longevity Studies at the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, discusses research on genes and growth hormones with SuperAgers and promising therapies to help older adults live healthier, longer
May 13, 2022

Listen: Nir Barzilai, MD, AFAR Scientific Director, discusses “Centenarians, metformin, and longevity” on the Peter Attia, MD, podcast
April 25, 2022

Read: SuperAgers provide longevity advice in The Patch’s “Tips For Living Longer, From Some Of Camden County's New Centenarians”
April 22, 2022

Watch: Experts with the National Institute of Aging’s RCCN program discuss unique research engaging Centenarian families in the webinar, “The Long Life Family Study: Resources and Discoveries in Human Aging”
June 30, 2022

Read: Nir Barzilai, MD, AFAR Scientific Director, shares “The Secrets of Successful Aging” in The New York Times
December 31, 2021

Read: Tom Perls, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine at Boston University, reviews advancements in centenarian research to prevent Alzheimer’s and slow brain aging in The New York Times’ “The Secrets of ‘Cognitive Super-Agers’”
May 16, 2021

Read: Norma Kamali, Fashion Designer and Empowered Aging Advocate, lends perspectives from her new book “Handbook on Aging with Power” with The Wall Street Journal
February 12, 2021

Read: Nir Barzilai, MD, AFAR Scientific Director, details what we can learn about longevity from SuperAgers in AFAR’s “Ask the Expert” interview series
August 20, 2020

Read: Thomas Perls, MD, Professor of Medicine at Boston University, discuss the science of SuperAgers in Parade Magazine, “Want to Live to 100? These Centenarians Are Sharing Their Secrets to Long Life”
June 20, 2020

Read: Sofiya Milman, MD, MS, Director of Human Longevity Studies at the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, provides insights around the protective genetic factors contributing to aging with preserved cognition in Alzforum’s “Resilience Redefined: Sharp at Age 100, Still Sharp at 102”
March 4, 2020

Read: Sofiya Milman, MD, MS, Director of Human Longevity Studies at the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, discusses the advancements supporting exceptional longevity research in WebMD’s “Is 100the New 80? What’s it Take to Live Longer?”
September 20, 2018

Read: Tom Perls, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine at Boston University, explains the impact of genetics on longevity and extended lifespans in the NIH‘News in Health’s,’ “Can You Lengthen Your Life? Researchers Explore How ToStay Healthy Longer”
June 1, 2016

Watch: Tom Perls, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine at Boston University, delivers the TEdx Talk, “Our Paths to 100,” detailing his longevity research on how and why we are living longer than ever before
June 9, 2015