Dr. Nir Barzilai
- Director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- President of The Academy for Health and Lifespan Research (AHLS)
Dr. Nir Barzilai is a preeminent leader in geroscience, demonstrating in his studies that aging has its own biology that drives age-related diseases, a process that can be targeted. At Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he is a professor in the departments of Medicine and Genetics, the director of the Institute for Aging Research, and...
read the restDr. Nir Barzilai is a preeminent leader in geroscience, demonstrating in his studies that aging has its own biology that drives age-related diseases, a process that can be targeted. At Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he is a professor in the departments of Medicine and Genetics, the director of the Institute for Aging Research, and the director of several Centers on the Basic Biology of Aging, as well as the author of over 350 papers. He made seminal discoveries in extending the health and lifespan of animals and discovering pathways for exceptional longevity in humans. Dr. Barzilai is a co-founder and the President of the Academy for Health and Life Span Research, and serves on the board of directors of the American Federation for Aging
Research, where he co-leads its biomarker effort (FAST, funded by ARPA-H), the Targeting Aging with Metformin (TAME) initiative, and the Super Agers initiative. He is an Executive of the Longevity Biotech Association (LBA) and serves on the council of the Healthy Longevity Medicine Society, and is a Fellow of the NY Academy of Medicine. He authored Age Later: Health Span, Life Span, and the New Science of Longevity.
