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The Buck Institute is named for Marin County philanthropists Leonard and Beryl Buck. Their estate funded the generous endowment that helped establish the Institute. The Buck Trust currently contributes approximately $6 million annually to support the Institute's work. Dr. Leonard Buck was a pathologist at the University of California, San Francisco; Beryl Buck was trained as a nurse. Prior to her death in 1975, she asked that the Buck estate be used, in part, “to extend help toward the problems of the aged.” Members of the Buck family have served on the Institute’s Board of Trustees.
The Institute opened its research facility in 1999. It was the first independent institution in the United States to respond to a call from the National Institute of Medicine to establish ten centers to study aging. The majority of the Institute’s funding now comes from federal grants, foundations, and donations. The Institute is governed by a non-compensated Board of Trustees.
The Institute’s first significant scientific finding was reported in Science in 2000, when faculty members Simon Melov and Gordon Lithgow demonstrated the first successful use of a drug to extend the lifespan significantly in an animal. The research involved a novel catalytic antioxidant which nearly doubled the lifespan of the nematode worm C. elegans and supported the role of oxidative stress as a major determinant of lifespan. Get more information on Institute discoveries.
The Buck Institute is built on approximately 488 acres of land on Mt. Burdell in Novato, California, 25 miles north of San Francisco. The Institute has donated open space to connect hiking trails in an adjacent state park and county-owned land.
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