Intellectual Salon Series - Dr. Eric Verdin

Dear friends, I am pleased to announce the next event of Intellectual Salon Series. The guest speaker will be Eric Verdin. Dr. Eric Verdin is the President and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging – a pioneering biomedical research institute dedicated to ageing and age-related disease. A native of Belgium, Dr. Verdin received his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Liege and completed additional clinical and research training at Harvard Medical School. He has held faculty positions at the University of Brussels, the National Institutes of Health, and the Picower Institute for Medical Research. Dr. Verdin is also currently a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. In 2016 Dr. Verdin established his laboratory at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging to study the relationship between ageing and the immune system. Eric is an elected member of several scientific organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the Association of American Physicians. He also serves on the advisory council of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health. We will talk about: “Human Aging & Longevity: The Science of Living Longer and Healthier”. Join us for fascinating talk!