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University of Southern California and buck institute nathan shock center: multidimensional models of aging

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The USC-Buck Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Biology of Aging is a new and fully integrated multi-institutional center focused on training the next generation of geroscientists and providing access to cutting-edge geroscience technologies to investigators across the nation. The USC-Buck NSC is devoted to forging a deeper understanding of how and why aging processes cause disease in order to advance the translation of basic research on aging into effective preventions and therapies. Including more than 61 NIA-supported investigators, six NIA-funded research centers, four NIA T32s, and several additional aging research centers of excellence, the USC-Buck NSC constitutes one of the largest collections of leaders in geroscience research within the USA; the unique nature of the USC-Buck NSC research infrastructure ensures an integrated organization that is representative of the wide breadth of topics encompassed by the biology of aging field. By leveraging the 25-year-long relationship, current collaborations and joint administrational activities of the University of Southern California and the Buck Institute for Aging Research, the USC-Buck NSC aims to enhance and expand promising research in the biology of aging at both at the and to make a positive impact across California, the nation and throughout the world. Specialized cores provide services to all Shock Center members, as well as provide support for services to the community at large.

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Curran, S.P., Lithgow, G.J., Verdin, E. et al. University of Southern California and buck institute nathan shock center: multidimensional models of aging. GeroScience 43, 2119–2127 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-021-00416-z

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