Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Novato’s Buck Institute is the largest independent scientific institute in the Bay Area. The Buck aims to end the threat of age-related diseases for this and future generations by bringing together the most capable and passionate scientists from a broad range of disciplines to identify and impede the ways in which we age. Its goal is to increase human healthspan, or the healthy years of life. Globally recognized as the pioneer and leader in efforts to target aging, the number one risk factor for serious diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer, macular degeneration, heart disease, and diabetes, the Buck wants to help people live better longer. For more information and to visit the Buck: https://www.buckinstitute.org/www.buckinstitute.org
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Sep 4, 2026
Joyce TeoHOST
So
Joyce TeoHOST
before coming here, Brian, you were at the Buck Institute in the US, focused mainly on animal models.
Joyce TeoHOST
So why make the move to Singapore for human trials? And where does Singapore fit in global longevity science?
Brian KennedyGUEST
Yeah, I mean, humans are animals too, after all.
Anurag SinghGUEST
Now, there are about trillions of immune cells in our body and about 20 different variants of immune cells.
Anurag SinghGUEST
We send these samples to the Buck Institute of Aging, and with Professor Eric Wordown, we studied at a single cell level what was going on.
Anurag SinghGUEST
Here's what was going on.
Anurag SinghGUEST
There are immune cells called T cells.
Joyce TeoHOST
So
Joyce TeoHOST
before coming here, Brian, you were at the Buck Institute in the US, focused mainly on animal models.
Joyce TeoHOST
So why make the move to Singapore for human trials? And where does Singapore fit in global longevity science?
Brian KennedyGUEST
Yeah, I mean, humans are animals too, after all.
Bill KappGUEST
You know, we were fortunate.
Bill KappGUEST
We were voted the number one longevity center in the world by the Buck Institute, by a member of our peers last December, which was quite an honor for us.
Bill KappGUEST
But this field of longevity is relatively nascent.
Bill KappGUEST
And there are a lot of people that think they were a longevity center.
Phil NewmanHOST
So Joanna also founded the Roundtable of Longevity Clinics, which I attended the year before last, which was amazing.
Phil NewmanHOST
It's an annual global summit held at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in California, where really leading practitioners and clinic founders come together to define best practices for the field.
Phil NewmanHOST
So we're going to talk about all that today.
Phil NewmanHOST
But first of all, Joanna, welcome to the show.
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Joanna BenszGUEST
And Longevity Center, Longevity Center Europe, please find us.
Joanna BenszGUEST
And Longevity Institute is International Institute of Longevity or Roundtable of Longevity Clinics.
Joanna BenszGUEST
And you will find us at the Buck Institute in October.
Phil NewmanHOST
Okay, cool.
SherryHOST
He's a physician, does a lot of work in the... you know, just in the longevity space, etc.
SherryHOST
And he was at the Buck Institute in California, and he was going there to present on NAD and NAD, you know, like, you know, drip, etc.
SherryHOST
For people who are very deconditioned to kind of bring them back up, you know, to these improved levels.
SherryHOST
And when he came back, because they have been studying NAD, etc., And I said, hey, well, how'd the conference go? And what's the biggest thing that you learned? And he said that I don't get enough sleep at night and that's what's going to age me so that I don't have the longevity and the quality of life that I want.
Brent WallaceHOST
I'll go to your website and link that, you know, and then your link.
Brent WallaceHOST
Is that at the Buck Institute? Novato, is that where you're?
Thomas LewisGUEST
No, actually, I'm talking for a Bay Area science popularization organization called Wonderfest.
Thomas LewisGUEST
And, um, yeah, periodically, um, you know, they, they give, I've spoken for them maybe half a dozen times.
Mangesh HattikudurHOST
Nicoa Poe is a lot of things.
Mangesh HattikudurHOST
A vegan, a former research assistant at Stanford, an Army National Guard Reserve, and a startup founder running his trials at the Buck Institute, a prestigious research institute devoted to longevity, where he's working on a way to replace his brain.
Mangesh HattikudurHOST
But as we sit in his office in Marin, overlooking sweeping hills thick with fog, he tells me he doesn't want to replace his organs by transplant, Putin style.
Mangesh HattikudurHOST
Instead, he's taking his inspiration from an old philosophical thought experiment, The Ship of Theseus.
Brittany FordHOST
The Global Wellness Summit named ovarian health at the center of women's longevity for 2026.
Brittany FordHOST
This month alone, a paper in Cell out of the Buck Institute framed the ovary as a whole body communication hub for metabolism, bone immunity, and brain.
Brittany FordHOST
And last November, the FDA started pulling the box warning off of menopausal hormonal therapy, which I have talked about.
Brittany FordHOST
So this means that there's research being done.
Kevin WhiteHOST
Anyway.
Kevin WhiteHOST
And then a, and your history of being the president and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, 2010 to '16, where you remain a professor.
Kevin WhiteHOST
And since 2017, you've been over in Singapore as a distinguished professor of biochemistry and physiology, where you direct the Center of Healthy Longevity, the Healthy Longevity Translational Research Program, and the Reproductive Longevity and Equality, uh, Program over there.
Kevin WhiteHOST
So you've, you wear a lot of hats, man, more than I thought.