Buck Institute for Research on Aging

10/16/2026

Longevity. In practice.

Turning longevity science into care that works in everyday life is central to our work at The Maximum Life.

Our CEO and co-founder, Priscila Hawthorne, will join fellow clinic leaders at the 2026 Roundtable of Longevity Clinics for the panel “Navigating Challenges, Embracing Opportunities.”

We look forward to bringing TML’s perspective to the discussion and learning from others building in this field.

October 17–18, 2026
Buck Institute for Research on Aging , Novato, California

If you’re attending, let’s connect.

https://longevity-roundtable.com/

10/14/2026

The o***y doesn’t retire after menopause.

New research from the Buck Institute and Northwestern University shows that ovaries remain biologically active and continue to change decades after menopause, with increased inflammation and changes in tissue structure.

Buck professor Birgit Schilling and staff scientist Mark Watson led the analysis of thousands of proteins in ovarian tissue from 28 women ages 50–75, uncovering changes that challenge the idea that the o***y’s story ends when reproduction does.

What could those changes mean for women’s long-term health? That’s the next question - and a powerful reason why our Center for Healthy Aging in Women is studying ovarian aging throughout women’s lives!

Read the press release:

Study in human ovaries found they have increased inflammation, structural changes in tissue decades after menopause

10/12/2026

If scientists could predict when proteins in our cells begin to move toward disease, could they find a way to find a way to intervene before irreversible damage occurs?

The Buck Institute and Georgetown University are co-leading a new research effort to find out.

Supported by an award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, the four-year SEEDS consortium brings together researchers from 10 academic institutions and 7 industry partners.

The team will combine laboratory science, computation and artificial intelligence to better understand proteins whose constantly changing shapes have made them especially difficult to predict and target. The research will initially focus on proteins implicated in Alzheimer’s disease and Ewing sarcoma, with the broader goal of learning how to recognize harmful protein changes earlier and potentially redirect them.

SEEDS is co-led by Buck Institute’s Chuankai (Kai) Zhou, PhD, who is joined by researchers Tara Tracy, PhD and Birgit Schilling, PhD from the Institute.

Learn more about the science, the team and the ambitious question they're working to answer: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1147220

A research “super team” co-led by the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and Georgetown University has received an award of up to $51.7 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to predict how disease-causing proteins misfold before irreversible damage occu...

10/09/2026

Exciting news for Buck research!

We're proud to join Georgetown University in leading SEEDS, an ambitious research collaboration supported by ARPA-H.

Together, scientists will explore new ways to predict harmful protein changes associated with diseases including Alzheimer's and cancer.

Stay tuned! On Monday, we'll introduce the researchers, partners and groundbreaking science behind this effort and what it could mean for human health.

https://arpa-h.gov/news-and-events/arpa-h-biogami-program-starts-work-find-and-fix-protein-dysfunction-earliest-stages


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The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) supports transformative research ranging in scale from molecular to societal to deliver health breakthroughs in years, not decades.

10/08/2026

Changes in NIH funding are creating challenges for the Buck and the important research happening here. Our Stand With Buck Science campaign is helping fill the funding gap so our scientists can keep doing what they do best.

We need your help! Please consider donating today.

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10/07/2026

Another full house at Buck this morning! Buck Associate Professor Dr Francesca Duncan is our guest today. She is discussing how the female reproductive system is the first to age in the human body and will affect every single woman. This has profound implications for women’s lifelong health. Case in point: while women live longer than men, they spend more years in poor health. A leading researcher in women’s healthy aging, Dr. Duncan clearly lays out how women are not just “little men” by focusing on the loss in endocrine function that accompanies ovarian aging. Her work aims to improve the healthspan of women by studying how alterations in the ovarian environment contribute to overall aging and by developing therapeutic interventions to address those changes. Register for next month’s seminar on Nov 4 at buckinstitute.org/events/lblseminar. In

09/30/2026

Changes at the NIH have resulted in the loss of $11 million in grant funding that was expected to come to Buck. We need your help to keep vital research moving forward.

Stand with our scientists. Stand with Buck Science. 💛

Donate today!
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09/23/2026

Can we spot the signs of age-related decline years before they appear? That's one of the questions Buck researchers hope to answer through a new collaboration with Oracle.

Using advanced analytics and more than 122 million de-identified health records, researchers will look for early signals of frailty and chronic disease, with the ultimate goal of making healthy aging more predictive and proactive.

Learn more:

Buck Institute aims to advance bioinformatics using Oracle Life Sciences Data Intelligence to transform aging research into a predictive, data-driven science

09/23/2026

Stand With Buck Science. Your support helps ensure that vital research and discovery can continue, even as federal funding declines. Stand with our scientists. Stand with science. https://www.buckinstitute.org/donate/

09/18/2026

The Buck Institute in Novato is hosting our next free Live Better Longer community seminar on Wednesday, October 7 at 11 a.m., both in person and on Zoom.

This month’s topic is “What the O***y Teaches Us About Aging – For Females and Males” with Buck scientist Francesca Duncan, PhD.

The female reproductive system is the first system in the human body to age, and changes in ovarian function can have important effects on women’s health as they get older. Dr. Duncan will talk about what scientists are learning from ovarian aging and what it may teach us about living healthier for longer.

These seminars are designed for the general public, so you definitely don’t need a science background!

It’s free and open to everyone — come join us! Register now to attend in person at the Buck Institute or watch on Zoom: https://www.buckinstitute.org/events/lblseminars

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October 7, 2026 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm - The Buck Institute is hosting in-person (with zoom option) monthly conversations with geroscience experts about how people can live longer, healthier lives. Speakers in the Live Better Longer Seminar Series will share the latest insights into sleep, exercise,....