Buck Institute for Research on Aging

04/23/2026

Today we are hosting a special event to commemorate the launch of THRIVE: Transforming Health, Reclaiming Intrinsic Vitality for Everyone, a groundbreaking new initiative aimed at developing the first FDA-grade Intrinsic Capacity Score to measure and predict healthy aging.

Held in collaboration with the YMCA and The California Institute of Stress and Resilience Research.

04/16/2026

Women’s health has long been underrepresented in research. New work led by Buck faculty member Ashley Webb helps change that, advancing our understanding of how aging impacts women at the cellular level.
Read the study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568163726001157

04/16/2026

Big news at the Buck: world-renowned cell biologist Peter Walter, PhD, has joined our faculty. His discoveries transformed our understanding of how cells maintain health, and what happens when that breaks down in aging and disease. Welcome, Peter!

Pioneering scientist whose discoveries transformed understanding of cellular health and disease joins Buck faculty

04/13/2026

Gender matters in the brain/bone axis. Buck scientists find that silently undermines bone quality in female mice: osteocytes may be a potential mid-life biomarker for both and

Buck Institute researchers discover a surprising connection between a major risk factor for Alzheimer’s and bone quality deficits in female mice, pointing to osteocytes as a potential midlife early warning signal for both osteoporosis and Alzheimer’s

04/03/2026

Blast off! Buck scientists make the case for space as a model for accelerated aging.

Could astronauts serve as a unique model for human aging research? Manwaring-Mueller et al. review how spaceflight stressors, such as microgravity and radiation, accelerate biological aging pathways and could inform treatments for age-related diseases on Earth.

04/02/2026

What happens when an oncologist and neurobiologist meet in a hallway? At the Buck the conversation leads to a breakthrough discovery for a rare kidney disease!

A unique collaboration between Buck Institute scientists studying breast cancer and Huntington’s disease shows that an orally administered drug prevents deadly calcium oxalate kidney stones, kidney failure, and early death in mice with Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 2

04/02/2026

Healthy older MEN needed for another clinical trial at the Buck Institute. Eligible participants will receive up to $275. The MOVE Study explores how lifestyle habits and activity impact health as we age. Note: Participants must be between 65-80 years old and have a BMI between 19-35. We need more men to apply! We have room for 13 men still. Send them our way! Email: MOVE-study@buckinstitute.org or call 415-209-2072 if interested.

04/01/2026

New podcast dropped today!! Buck scientist Brianna Stubbs sits down with Hanadie Yousef, Co-Founder of Juvena Therapeutics, to discuss the cutting-edge of longevity science, moving beyond "snake oil" and into a future where science-based therapies help us stay younger, longer.

04/01/2026

Another packed house today at the Buck at our monthly community seminar. Today’s seminar guest is Dr. Dean Ornish on Taking Control of Your Health. Dr. Ornish is one of the pioneers of taking a lifestyle-driven approach to heart disease and other chronic diseases. Dr. Ornish’s lifestyle medicine program remains the only one ever scientifically proven in peer-reviewed randomized trials to prevent and often reverse the progression of heart disease. He’ll discuss how it may also improve cognition and function in early-stage Alzheimer’s patients. Registration for our next seminar on May 6 opens today at noon: buckinstitute.org/events/lblseminars

03/30/2026

Hot off the Buck blog press! In his latest monthly column in Marin Magazine, Buck Institute's CEO, Dr. Eric Verdin, shares a simple, science-backed way to improve your health: eat a daily handful of nuts.

Our CEO Eric Verdin's most recent "Science For You" column in Marin Magazine.

03/23/2026

FRS seminar with Assistant Professor Samantha Lewis from UC Berkeley, who gave a terrific talk on her work on mitochondria, and also gave valuable career advice at an MTA-organized event.

03/18/2026

New podcast dropped today!! Eric Verdin sits down with Dr. Cynthia Kenyon, a true pioneer in the field of geroscience and the Vice President of Aging Research at Calico Life Sciences. Dr. Kenyon recounts the revolutionary discovery that aging is not merely a process of "wearing out," but is a genetically regulated biological program. In 1993, Cynthia’s pioneering discovery that a single-gene mutation could double the lifespan of C. elegans roundworms while preserving function sparked an intensive study of the molecular biology of aging. The conversation explores how these findings translate from worms to mammals, the potential of drugs like Ozempic and Acarbose to extend human healthspan, and Dr. Kenyon’s proposal for a "World Healthspan Organization" to fund large-scale clinical trials for off-patent, low-cost compounds that currently lack traditional industry incentives.

Check it out where you listen to podcasts or go to our website to listen: https://www.buckinstitute.org/podcasts/16019/