Ageing is a treatable disease | Nir Bazilai | TEDxBeaconStreetSalon

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Ageing has a biology that can be targeted to extend lifespan, quality of life and delay the onset of age-related disease.

We are more imaginative as kids, but we don’t really see ourselves looking like our grandparents… As a child, Nir was intrigued by becoming old. He became a physician and then a Gero-scientist, and was amongst the pioneers that moved the field from hope to promise. He is now the leader of the biggest center in the world for the biology of aging at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is a founder of a biotech and venture capital, creating drugs that target ageing. He has been an advisor to the government to figure out how to modulate the process of ageing. He is leading a study aimed to get FDA approval for a drug that can prevent diseases of ageing. He will tell us more about the possibility to have a longer life span by ageing later. https://www.einstein.yu.edu/faculty/4... Dr. Nir Barzilai is the director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Human Aging Research and of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging. He is the Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Chair of Aging Research, professor in the Departments of Medicine and Genetics, and member of the Diabetes Research Center and of the Divisions of Endocrinology & Diabetes and Geriatrics.

Dr. Barzilai’s research interests are in the biology and genetics of aging. He has received numerous grants, among them ones from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), American Federation for Aging Research, the Ellison Medical Foundation and The Glenn Medical foundation.

Born in Israel, Dr. Barzilai served as chief medic and physician in the Israel Defense Forces. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx