The Buck Institute

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Working to create a world where everyone can have
healthy minds and healthy bodies at every age.

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Our Faculty

A mission-driven community
of investigators

The Buck is a collective of the world’s top scientists in the field of aging who are sharing their methods and
expertise to find ways to help everyone lead fuller, healthier lives by ending age-related disease.

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Our Research

Advancing the frontiers
of research on aging

Using cutting-edge science to tackle aging, the #1 risk factor for chronic disease.

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OUR MISSION

Our mission is to end the threat of age-related disease for this and future generations

We believe it is possible for people to enjoy their lives at 95 as much as they do at 25, and to achieve that, we’re seeking a more comprehensive understanding of the biology of aging itself.

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Advancing the frontiers
of aging research

Using cutting-edge science to tackle aging, the #1 risk factor for chronic disease.

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The first non-invasive biomarker to track and verify efficacy of senolytic drugs

The discovery and development of a lipid-metabolite biomarker is expected to facilitate research and clinical trials of drugs that target multiple age-related diseases

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Chronic viral infections can have lasting effects on human immunity, similar to aging

Researchers identify signatures of immune dysfunction that are shared in aging and chronic viral infections of HIV and Hepatitis C

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A Shot Towards Ending a Pandemic: Vaccines Explained

In our final blog from our Dominican students, get science-based answers to common vaccine questions...

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“What I want people to know about the Buck is the incredible commitment and excitement that permeates the walls of this institution. We are pushing the frontiers in an area that is going to impact all of humanity. I cannot tell you exactly when this will happen, but I can tell you big discoveries will come out of the Buck.”

Eric Verdin, MD, Buck Institute President and CEO

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The Buck Impact Circle Supports Project Aimed at Understanding Vulnerabilities and Resilience in the Aging Brain

The group awarded more than $100,000 to junior faculty members Kai Zhou, PhD and Tara Tracy, PhD
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Special webinar will launch OVA, a new membership program for those interested in women’s health

Ovaries show signs of aging decades before other tissues. Women’s reproductive organs are considered geriatric in their early 30’s...
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A new predictive model helps identify those at risk for severe COVID-19

Buck scientists analyze data from 3 million people using a smartphone app in the United Kingdom

Donor Appreciation

Gruber Family supports underserved students during COVID-19

In the time of COVID-19, the Gruber Family Foundation supports an innovative educational program for underserved students
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Special webinar will launch OVA, a new membership program for those interested in women’s health

Ovaries show signs of aging decades before other tissues. Women’s reproductive organs are considered geriatric in their early 30’s...
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Press Release

A new predictive model helps identify those at risk for severe COVID-19

Buck scientists analyze data from 3 million people using a smartphone app in the United Kingdom
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Donor Appreciation

Gruber Family supports underserved students during COVID-19

In the time of COVID-19, the Gruber Family Foundation supports an innovative educational program for underserved students
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Event Highlights

Here’s what’s happening

Upcoming events at the Buck

Service Animal Accommodation
Ongoing

Formal Research Seminars

FRS talks are being held via Zoom by invitation only.
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Webinars

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Maturity impairs maturity, at least in #oocytes. New in Aging Cell from Berhnard Payer, @RitaVassena, & @hoheyn: aging affects the transcriptome in the final stages of oocyte maturation more than it does immature oocytes https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/cfgr-aic042621.php

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Learn all about how the USC-Buck Nathan Shock Center can be a technical and expert resource for your #geroscience projects. Register to attend this informative town hall May 21, 12-1pm PT! http://bit.ly/townhall-may21

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Thank you and congrats to all our graduate students for their successful Buck Student Aging Symposium on Friday! You have accomplished so much during this crazy year and it was great to hear all your amazing science!

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Join host @JennGarrison for grand finale webinar in the "Making Reproductive Longevity a Reality" series hosted with @NUSMedicine. Don't miss this chance to hear leaders in the field discuss building an ecosystem to truly support #womenshealth. Register: http://bit.ly/2K7DEO6

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Meet our scientists! Postdoc Olga Bielska focuses her passion on mitochondrial metabolism and is looking at a gene that could provide multiple insights into the aging process. A native of Ukraine, Olga likes to garden and take photographs when she’s not in the lab.

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Join the fight against age-related diseases

You don’t have to be a scientist to make an important contribution to research on aging. We rely on donations to support the science that we believe will add years to people’s lifespan and decades to their healthspan.

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