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Geroscience

In December, 2007, the National Institutes of Health, the primary federal agency supporting medical research in the country, and the National Center for Research Resources validated the Buck Institute’s interdisciplinary approach with a$23 million grant for the creation of a new discipline coined as “Geroscience.”

The Interdisciplinary Research Center on Geroscience

Age-related disease is arguably the single greatest challenge forbiomedicine in the 21st Century. Aging is the most important risk factor for human disease in developed countries andconsequently creates an enormous social and economic impact.Our ability to tackle age-related disease is undermined by ourlack of understanding of the principles and mechanisms of aging.Aging is a tough, complex biomedical problem that is unlikely toyield to traditional investigative techniques. The Buck Institute is focused on studying the interface of normal aging and agingdiseases in an interdisciplinary fashion.

The Interdisciplinary Researh Center on Geroscience was founded in 2007 as one of nine centers established as part of a trans-NIH Roadmap initiative designed to "lower organizational barriers that impede research and enable scientists to conduct research across disciplines, creating solutions to biomedical problems that have not been solved using traditional, disciplinary approaches." We consider that the relationship between aging and age-related disease an important problem that can be tackled through an interdisciplinary approach.  

The Buck Institute for Age Research was founded on the principle of creating interdisciplinary research by bringing together, under one roof and without departmental boundaries, basic scientists from highly disparate backgrounds who are collaborative, accomplished, and driven to derive scientific solutions to the complex biological and biomedical problems.  Thus, from its inception in 1999, the Institute has assumed the very structure that is required to foster interdisciplinary studies, and indeed, the Institute exists for this very purpose.  This maximizes opportunities for collaboration, creative approaches and surprising discoveries.

 

  
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