Nir Barzilai, USA

Nir Barzilai, USA

Dr. Barzilai is the Director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Director of the Glenn Center for the Biology of Human Aging and of the Nathan Shock Center of excellence in biology of aging.

He is The Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Professor of Aging Research, Professor of Medicine and Molecular Genetics and a member of the Diabetes Research Center, the Divisions of Endocrinology and Geriatrics. Dr. Barzilai’s interests focus on several basic mechanisms in the biology of aging, including the biological effects of nutrients on extending life and the genetic determinants of life span. Indeed, he has discovered several longevity genes in humans, and is further characterizing the phenotype and genotype of humans with exceptional longevity through an NIH supported Program Project. He received numerous grants, among them ones from the National Institute of Aging (NIA), American Federation of Aging Research, and the Ellison Medical Foundation.  

Dr. Barzilai has published over 220 peer-reviewed papers, reviews and chapters in textbooks. He is an advisor to the National Institutes of Health on several projects and initiatives and study sections (currently on NIA-Biology). Dr. Barzilai is in the board of the American Federation for Aging Research, is its co-scientific director, and has served on several NIA study section. He is also a founder of CohBar Inc., a biotech that develops mitochondrial derived peptides as therapy for aging and its diseases. He is co-PI on the R24 Geroscience (Apollo) grant that is an effort to move the field of aging to translation. He is leading the TAME (Targeting/Taming Aging with MEtformin) multi central study. 
Dr. Barzilai was a recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Beeson Fellow for Aging Research, the Senior Ellison Foundation award, the Paul Glenn Foundation award and the NIA- Nathan Shock Award and the recipient of the 2010 Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction in Aging Research Award and the 2013 Rifkin lectureship.
Dr. Barzilai is Israeli born and have served as a medic and a physician in the IDF. He has served in an Israeli team to aid Cambodian refugees, and was in charge of building a nutritional village in the homeland of the Zulus in South Africa. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, and completed his residency in Internal medicine at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. He was an invited speaker to the 4th Israeli President Conference (2012) and a Vatican conference on Stem Cells and Aging (2013). Dr. Barzilai served on the board of Kol Ami congregation in White Plains, and has been on the ‘Forward 50, top 50 influence Jews in the US (2011). His work has been profiled by major outlets, including the New York Times, the BBC and PBS’ NOVA science now, TEDx talk Science and is the leading feature on the Ron Howard/Jonathan Silberberg/ National Geographic  film about the Age of Aging.

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