AFAR has played a major role in providing and advancing knowledge of aging and mechanisms of age-related disease by providing start-up grants to nearly 2,500 early-career scientists.

Research on aging and aging processes leads the way to a greater understanding of all age-related diseases. It has the potential to improve public health to a far greater extent than science that examines only one disease at a time. Research on aging also provides the hope and the promise for everyone to live healthier, longer lives less susceptible to disease and disability. Aging research is likely to be the least expensive path to preventing and curing many diseases of aging.Studying aging requires two complementary approaches: studying the components of disease that are related to aging and studying the underlying mechanisms of aging and how they regulate the processes in our bodies.For 28 years, the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) has been at the forefront of this revolutionary approach to the science of healthier aging.

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