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Welcome to the Buck Institute for Age Research

The mission of the Buck Institute is to increase the healthy years of life through basic biomedical research.

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancer, stroke, and arthritis have one thing in common: age. By focusing on the connection between aging and disease, scientists at the Buck Institute for Age Research are striving to develop diagnostic tests and treatments that will prevent or delay these conditions. Our goal is to increase the healthy years of life - so that growing older no longer means growing ill.

The Buck Institute - the first independent research facility in the country focused solely on aging and age-related disease - is taking a prominent role in shaping the future of medicine. Its status as a freestanding nonprofit research center allows scientists to initiate new studies quickly and respond to new opportunities in biomedical research, such as stem cell research and regenerative medicine. Our interdisciplinary research approach, dynamic physical design, and support services provide an ideal environment for biomedical inquiry.

The Buck Institute is also a place for education, helping to train the next generation of researchers in aging, from postdoctoral fellows to high school students. Institute symposia feature international experts and draw participants from all over the world. The Institute also educates the general public about new discoveries and ways to age healthfully.

Buck Institute scientists work together without departmental boundaries, sharing ideas while working literally side-by-side with colleagues from other disciplines. Their labs are physically designed to foster these interactions across disciplinary lines.  Unlike other institutions, all Buck Institute scientists, of all specialties, share a common goal: understanding aging.breakthroughs. Even the most unexpected research on model organisms has led to human outcomes.  

For instance, Buck Institute researchers examining aging in fruit flies have produced important insights into suppression of human tumors. Studies involving cell death have suggested new possibilities for treating Alzheimer disease. Parkinson specialists have zeroed in on iron-fortified infant formula as a surprising player in later-life development of that disease.

In simple terms, the past ten years of research at the Buck Institute has provided a case for behavior modification in humans that is steeped in fact.
 
The Buck Institute interdisciplinary research model, shaped by the organizational rubric of aging, will produce the answers that have eluded medical science so far.
No enterprise in the country is better positioned to deliver this research than the Buck Institute.

Now in its tenth year, the Buck Institute has assembled an extraordinary corps of scientific talent.  Collectively, the Buck Institute has already amassed these distinctions:

  • Engages an exceptional collection of talent, selected from the top research centers of the world, brought together in a uniquely collaborative, uncommonly productive investigative environment.
     
  • Named Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Biology of Age Research by the National Institute on Aging in 2005. There are just five such centers in the country.
  • In 2006, received a $2 million grant from the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation to create the Larry L. Hillblom Center for Integrative Studies of Aging, and a $1.7 million networking grant to launch an enterprise that will screen 120,000 chemical compounds to identify those that slow aging and treat disease.
  • Awarded a $25 million roadmap grant from the NIH in 2007. Roadmap grants are intended to transform the nation's medical research capacity and address health challenges that have proven resistant to traditional research approaches.
  • Received two major awards in 2007 from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM): $ 4.1 million and $734,000 to establish a regional center where scientists can learn how to culture and use human embryonic stem cells.
  • Received notification of a $20.5 million award in 2008 from CIRM to build a global center for Stem Cell research.
  • Published more than 600 papers; awarded more than 65 grants; established an international reputation for aging research.
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