Buck Institute for Research on Aging
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| Established | 30 Sep 1999 |
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| President | Eric M. Verdin |
| Budget | $37 million |
| Formerly called | Buck Institute for Age Research |
| Location | Novato, California, United States |
| Coordinates | 38.133939°N 122.570432°W |
| Address | 8001 Redwood Blvd. Novato, CA 94945-1400 |
| Website | thebuck |
The Buck Institute for Research on Aging is an independent biomedical research institute devoted solely to research on aging and age-related disease. The mission of the Buck Institute is to extend the , the healthy years of life.
The institute, a nonprofit organization located in Novato, California, began its research program in 1999 making it the world's first institute founded primarily to research aging. It is named for Marin County philanthropists Leonard and Beryl Hamilton Buck, whose estate funded the endowment that helped establish the institute, and the Buck Trust currently contributes approximately $6 million annually to support the institute's work. In May 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."
The campus of the Buck Institute was designed by architect I. M. Pei, who submitted an unsolicited proposal to design the research facility.
The institute's 250+ researchers work across disciplines to understand the aging process and its link to chronic disease. Buck Institute scientists have authored more than 660 scholarly papers for scientific journals since its opening in 1999.
The Buck Institute's program in Regenerative Medicine and Aging focuses on three questions:
The research at the Buck Institute is supported by "technology cores" which include genomics, proteomics and mass spectrometry, morphology, transgenics, and bioinformatics.
The Buck Institute is one of seven organizations that compose The Glenn Foundation for Research in Aging.
The Buck Foundation Trust was created by Beryl Hamilton Buck after the death in 1953 of her husband, pathologist Leonard W. Buck. Leonard's father, Frank Buck, was one of the founders of Belridge Oil. When Beryl Buck died in 1975, the bulk of the estate became part of the San Francisco Foundation, about $7.6 million dedicated to "charitable purposes in Marin County" including, "extending help to the problems of aging." The Belridge Oil stock in the trust was bought in 1979 by Shell Oil for $253 million, increasing the trust's value substantially. Attempts by the San Francisco Foundation to use the cy pres doctrine to spend outside of Marin County resulted in litigation which the SF Foundation lost.
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