Buck Institute for Research on Aging

So many great tidbits in this profile of Buck adjunct professor, MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and reproductive scientist/mom/beekeeper/etc Polina Lishko! #CRLE (twitter: @GCRLE1) https://www.thecut.com//how-i-get-it-done-polina-lishko.ht

Does the news have you feeling inflamed? Maybe learning about #SASP will soothe you! New work from Kumamoto University in Trends in Cell Biology, a Cell Press journal, identifies 4 #epigenetic + #metabolic controlled states of #senescence. Could be important for controlling #inflammaging. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rel/2020-10/ku-acv102620.php

A must-read editorial from Victor Dzau, Elizabeth Finkelman , Celynne Balatbat, Eric Verdin, and Roderic Pettigrew in Science Translational Medicine on the need to accelerate #aging science to achieve healthy #longevity worldwide https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/12/566/eabd3816.full

Hot off the Buck blog press! As the world gets a crash course on #virology, Buck scientists have been using #CRISPR technology to make viruses weaker and less infectious. Read the background story from lead scientist Marius Walter here! https://www.buckinstitute.org//driving-that-gene-mutation/

Feeling stiff with age? So do ovaries! Read new, exciting work by #CRLE Professor #FrancescaDuncan Northwestern Duncan Lab linking #ovarian fibrosis to changes in #collagen and #hyaluron with age. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acel.13259

Unity Biotechnology, cofounded by #JudyCampisi, just announced the beginning of their Phase 1 trial for #diabeticmacularedema using #senolytic compound UBX1325. It's exciting to watch this work begin its clinical translation! https://www.globenewswire.com//UNITY-Biotechnology-Announc

Read a great overview of how #COVID19 challenges the #aging #immunesystem and the possibility of anti-aging drug candidates to boost immune response. Buck CEO Dr. EricV erdin talks #senescence! https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02856-7

All the congratulations to new Dr. Chisaka Kuehnemann from the Campisi lab who just defended her thesis "A small molecule protease inhibitor induces senescence phenotypes that are reversible upon drug removal" and is officially #PhDone!

The Buck mourns the loss of Paul F. Glenn. Says Buck CEO, Dr. Eric Verdin "Paul was a true champion of the basic research that brought our field into the mainstream." The Glenn Foundation has been a wonderful partner in pushing #aging and #healthspan science forward. https://www.buckinstitute.org//the-buck-institute-mourns-/

Congrats to Postdoc, Dr. Nate Basisty, on his prestigious K99 grant with cool translational potential for #senescent biomarkers of aging! https://www.buckinstitute.org//buck-postdoc-nathan-basist/

We are grateful and in awe of #NicoleShanahan's generosity and foresight in establishing the Global Consortium and Center for Reproductive Longevity & Equality @GCRLE1 & #CRLE at Buck. Congrats on being part of @Entrepreneur's #100powerfulwomen LINK TO ARTICLE: https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/356977

Congratulations! CRISPR has so many exciting applications in #aging and #healthspan (and...everything else)! https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/1313778075356798976

Congratulations to stellar reproductive scientist and Buck #CRLE adjunct faculty Dr. Polina Lishko for being named a MacArthur Fellow! https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1064/