Scientific Director of NIA and leader of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
Luigi Ferrucci is the Scientific Director of the National Institute on Aging and leads the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA), the longest-running scientific study of human aging in America. His research spans the biology of aging, inflammaging (chronic low-grade inflammation), and the development of biomarkers to measure biological age. He has published over 800 peer-reviewed papers and has been instrumental in establishing aging as a distinct field of medical research with translational applications.