George A. Kuchel, MD, FRCP, AGSF

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Farmington, CT 06030

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Farmington, CT 06030

United States

George A. Kuchel is a geriatrician, gerontologist and professor of medicine at UConn Health in Farmington, CT. He holds the Travelers Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology, and also serves as Director of the UConn Center on Aging.

Dr Kuchel obtained his medical training at McGill, followed by training in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Harvard, together with postdoctoral research fellowships in Epidemiology at Harvard and in Neurobiology at Harvard and Mount Sinai.

Dr Kuchel’s research has focused on Precision Gerontology. This overarching effort seeks to discover and test interventions designed to enhance function and independence in older adults by targeting heterogeneity in aging-related declines involving host defense, mobility, cognition and bladder control.

Dr Kuchel leads the recently funded NIA Claude D Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at UConn. He is also MPI of the NIA Translational Geroscience Network, the NIA Geroscience Education and Training (GET) Network and the KAPP-Sen Cellular Senescence Tissue Mapping Collaborative.

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