Marin Magazine: What Is Vimizim?
“Created in the late 1980s from the trust of a wealthy Ross couple, Leonard and Beryl Buck, the Buck Institute is an independent research facility whose mission is “to increase the healthy years of life.” Within its walls dozens of world-class scientists work in a collaborative environment to understand how getting older contributes to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and heart diseases, as well as cancer, stroke, diabetes and glaucoma.“The Buck Institute is absolutely an asset to the growth of life science commerce in Marin,” says Robert Eyler, Sonoma State University professor of economics and chief economist for the Marin Economic Forum. “Short of a leading research university, there’s nothing like it between the Golden Gate Bridge and the University of Oregon in Eugene.””
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