Center for Research & Education on Aging (CREA) ^{Research Labs}

The mission of CREA is to investigate the basic processes that cause aging, with the goal of improving and extending human health span. CREA integrates the efforts of cell and molecular biologists, structural and computational biologists, geneticists, physiologists and public health professionals, who are the intellectual assets and resources of the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. By combining the keen minds of University of California scientists with the steady hands and eager intellect of its student body, the new Center for Research and Education in Aging (CREA) will rise to the challenge. The mission of CREA is to investigate the basic processes that cause aging, with the goal of improving and extending human health span. CREA integrates the efforts of cell and molecular biologists, structural and computational biologists, geneticists, physiologists and public health professionals, who are the intellectual assets and resources of the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. CREA is also associated with the Buck Institute for Age Research, a private nonprofit basic biomedical research institute located in Novato, California. This unique partnership brings to the study of aging an approach that most medical schools cannot marshal because they focus on specific diseases and their treatments. Aging makes us vulnerable to disease and injury, but we do not know why. Research into the process responsible for aging remains seriously neglected. CREA is designed to create a research/education environment that fosters basic aging research and educates the next generations of scientists.