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The Advances in Social Genomics Conference 2025

Dan Belsky

Portrait of Dan Belsky

About Dan

Dan Belsky is Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in the Robert N Butler Columbia Aging Center, where he directs the Center’s Geroscience Computational Core. His group develops methods to quantify the pace and progress of biological aging in young, midlife, and older adult humans and applies these methods in epidemiological studies and clinical trials to identify opportunities for intervention to increase healthy lifespan. His work is supported by the US National Institute on Aging, the Russel Sage and Jacobs Foundations, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and Impetus Grants. He is co-director of the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) FAST Initiative to develop novel biomarkers of aging using biospecimens from completed clinical trials and a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of X-Prize Healthspan, AFAR, as well as several large-scale research projects. He is an inventor of the Pace of Aging method and the DunedinPACE epigenetic clock. Since 2020, he has been named an ISI highly-cited researcher.

Organization

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Presentation

Quantification of Biological Aging: Where are we now?