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New @aarp.org article features insights from Dr. Buford of the UAB Nathan Shock Center, part of the Nathan Shock Centers Coordinating Center that AFAR helps lead for the NIA/NIH.
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A longevity researcher doesn't take any supplements. Here are his 3 anti-aging habits instead. Longevity researcher Dr. Thomas Rando doesn't take supplements. He stays healthy by running, fasting once a week, and socializing.

Recent Business Insider article features AFAR President, Thomas A. Rando, MD, PhD, on lifestyle interventions that could help extend healthspan, such as exercise and altering dietary behavior.
Read here: https://ow.ly/4m1m50XTuof

A Different Type of Dementia Is Changing What’s Known About Cognitive Decline On its own, LATE dementia is less severe than Alzheimer’s, but in combination, it makes Alzheimer’s symptoms worse, scientists say.

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AFAR Grantee Reisa Sperling, PhD, was featured in The New York Times and The Seattle Times, providing insights into LATE (Limbic predominant age-related TDP 43 encephalopathy), a newly recognized form of dementia she helped name.
Read here: https://ow.ly/AZOI50XQjcT

Article co-authored by AFAR Scientific Director Steven N. Austad, PhD, on the validity of the data of Blue Zones, recently published in The Gerontologist.
Read here: https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/65/12/gnaf246/8381533?login=false

2025 Forbes Healthcare Summit | The Secrets To Longevity: Giving Patients Longer, Healthier Lives The number of Americans aged 65 and older is growing faster than any other segment of the population. People are living longer, but those years often require more care. This panel will explore new technologies on the horizon that will not only extend people’s lifespans, but their “healthspans”--the years in which they can remain active, healthy and independent. Forbes Senior Editor Maggie McGrath sits down with Nir Barzilai, M.D., Director, Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine; President, The Academy for Health and Lifespan Research (AHLS); Board Member,...

AFAR Board member Nir Barzilai, MD, and Grantee Jamie Justice, PhD, recently spoke at the 2025 @forbes.com Healthcare Summit on the panel “The Secrets to Longevity: Giving Patients Longer, Healthier Lives.”
Watch here: http://www.forbes.com/video/d7333d9d-387a-47c9-8714-fb949f9c6ee3/

How to Protect Your Brain: Everything We Know Now and What We Hope Is Coming Everything we know now, and what we hope and pray is coming.

AFAR Grantee Reisa Sperling, PhD, featured in Oprah Daily article on lifestyle interventions that may delay Alzheimer’s and other related neurodegenerative diseases.
Read here: https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/health/a69461244/how-to-protect-your-brain/

As 2026 approaches, AFAR wishes you a very happy and healthy new year. We are excited to see what lies ahead in geroscience and aging research, and we appreciate your support. Thank you for considering a year-end gift to AFAR: https://www.afar.org/donate

AFAR’s 4-STAR Charity Navigator rating is achieved by less than one-tenth of one percent of charities. When you donate to AFAR, you can trust your donations go more toward research and not administration. https://www.afar.org/donate

Introducing Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research recipient, Tuoqi Wu, PhD, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who will research "Understand FOXP1 as a gatekeeper of T cell aging."
Learn more here: https://ow.ly/H7nt50XJNH0

Introducing Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research recipient, Deborah Winter, PhD, of Northwestern University, who will research "Understanding the role of noisy chromatin deregulation in aging macrophages."
Learn more here: https://ow.ly/FzAU50XJNyf

Introducing Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research recipient, Peter van Galen, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Learn more about their research here: https://ow.ly/2KiT50XJE2u

Is It Possible to Slow Down Ovarian Aging? A New Study Says Yes—Here’s Why That’s Important “The goal is to try to delay menopause, so you can recover more years of overall health and protection from chronic diseases."

Yahoo!News & Flow Space recently featured insights from AFAR Scholar-in-Residence Raiany Romanni-Klein, PhD, on ovarian aging.
Read here: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/possible-slow-down-ovarian-aging-214620291.html?guccounter=2

Introducing Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research recipient, Noah Snyder-Mackler, PhD, of Arizona State University.
Learn more about their research here: https://ow.ly/7FVJ50XJCLE

AFAR congratulates the Gerontological Society of America for receiving a 3-year grant award from the NIA/NIH to establish the Geroscience Education and Training 2 (GET2) Network, built with guidance from several AFAR grantees and experts.
Learn more here: https://ow.ly/vTaq50XKrt1

Introducing Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology & Geroscience Research recipient, Jason Sheltzer, PhD, of Stanford University, who will study "Investigating loss of the Y chromosome as a targetable driver of aging-related pathologies."
Learn more here: https://ow.ly/f1VA50XJCvr

Introducing Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research recipient, Mattia Quattrocelli, PhD, of the University of Cincinnati, who will research "The Carnosine Clock Ticks for Healthy Aging."
Learn more here: https://ow.ly/K8I550XJCkp

Even in a difficult year for research funding, momentum in aging research keeps building. In 2025, AFAR received more applications than ever before. Your year-end gift to AFAR will help support even more scientists who are committed to healthy aging: https://www.afar.org/donate

Introducing Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research recipient, Hadi Nia, PhD, of Boston University, who will research "Inflammaging in the Lung: Dissecting the Impact of Aging on pulmonary vs. circulatory factors."
Learn more here: https://ow.ly/R9Q650XJC5k

AFAR is pleased to announce Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research recipient, Jerome Mertens, PhD, of UC San Diego, who will research "Metabolic regulation of resilience in aging human neurons."
Learn more here: https://ow.ly/lcXt50XJBqY

Introducing Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research recipient, Katharina Maisel, PhD, of the University of Maryland.
Learn more about their research here: https://ow.ly/O0XC50XJB9z

New Research co-authored by Beeson Scholar Reisa Sperling, MD, on the potential connection between moderate exercise and delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s disease in Nature Medicine, Newsweek, Yahoo News, and more.
Read here: https://ow.ly/yI0550XGWVL

Introducing Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research recipient, Hongjie Li, PhD, of the Baylor College of Medicine, who will research, "Building Systematic Brain-Body Communication & Personalized Aging Trajectories."
Learn more here: https://ow.ly/jFGl50XFZjo

Nature Aging recently published new research co-authored by AFAR Grantee Peter van Galen, PhD, exploring age-related biological differences in human breast cancers.
Read the full paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-025-00984-1

Introducing Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research recipient, Emma Johnson, PhD, of Washington University School of Medicine.
Learn more about her research here: https://www.afar.org/grantee-profiles/emma-johnson

Introducing Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research recipient, Weishan Huang, PhD, of LSU, who will research "Mechanisms of Lung Immune Memory Decline During Aging."
Learn more here: https://www.afar.org/grantee-profiles/weishan-huang

Is ageing a disease? The debate that could reshape medicine Classifying ageing as a disease might bring funding and other benefits, say some researchers, but others say this is fraught with ethical and regulatory implications.

AFAR Board Member Richard G.A. Faragher, PhD, featured in Nature Index 2025: Ageing article exploring the debate on whether aging should be classified as a disease.
Read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03525-3

Introducing Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research recipient, Ramin Herati, MD, of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Learn more about his research here: https://ow.ly/g4aJ50XFY1a

AFAR is pleased to announce Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research recipient, Jia Guo, PhD, of Columbia University.
Learn more about his research here: https://ow.ly/HSH950XFXLw

Introducing Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research recipient, Brianne Connizzo, PhD, of Boston University, who will research, "Senescence Disrupts Tissue Remodeling and Repair."
Learn more here: https://www.afar.org/grantee-profiles/brianne-connizzo