Eric Verdin MD

Eric Verdin is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. A native of Belgium, Dr. Verdin received his Doctorate of Medicine (MD) from the University of Liege and additional clinical and research training at Harvard Medical School. He has held faculty positions at the University of Brussels, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Picower Institute for Medical Research. Dr. Verdin is also a Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Verdin’s laboratory focuses on the role of epigenetic regulators in the aging process. His laboratory was first to clone a family of enzymes, called HDACs, which regulate histone acetylation. Dr. Verdin studies how metabolism, diet and small molecules regulate the activity of HDACs and Sirtuins and thereby the aging process and its associated diseases, including Alzheimer’s.