Buck Institute for Age Research

The Buck Institute for Age Research is the United States' first independent biomedical research institute devoted solely to research on aging and age-related disease. The mission of the Buck Institute is to extend the healthspan, the healthy years of life.

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The Institute, a nonprofit organization located in Novato, California, began its research program in 1999. In 2005 the National Institute on Aging designated the Buck Institute a Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Biology of Aging, one of just five centers in the United States.^{[citation needed]} In May of 2007, the Institute established a cooperative agreement with the University of California's Davis and Merced campuses to coordinate stem-cell research, a move hailed by UC as a collaboration that "strengthens California's leadership in stem cell research and moves it forward in an efficient, safe and cost-effective manner." [1]

Research themes

• Basic mechanisms of aging utilizing research models of yeast, nematode worms, fruit flies and mice
• Age-associated conditions, among them cancer, arthritis, stroke, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease
• Stem cell and regenerative medicine

Interdisciplinary research at the Buck Institute is supported by technology cores which include genomics, proteomics and mass spectrometry, morphology, transgenics, and bioinformatics.