About Me

Dr. Jorge Romero is a geroscientist and a nutritionist with a PhD in Molecular Biology collaborating with the U.S. National Institute on Aging. His work focuses on how nutrition and longevity interventions influence the pace of biological aging.

AGING RESEARCHER

Since 2018, he has conducted research across animal models and large human cohorts, including work within the Translational Gerontology Branch and the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences.

nutrition scientist

He has conducted six years of research in nutrition at the IMDEA Research Institute in Food and the Cancer Research Center, studying the links between nutrition and age-related diseases such as cancer. He holds a Master’s degree in Food Chemistry and a degree in Human Nutrition.

biological clocks

He developed a blood-based biological clock to predict biological age, published in Nature Aging, and was awarded the 2022 Nathan W. Shock Award (NIA) for this work.

He lives between Madrid and Baltimore with his wife and daughter and is deeply curious about almost everything.

Jorge Romero working in a laboratory at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Baltimore.

Collage of scientist Dr. Jorge Romero presenting aging research, working in the lab, and speaking at conferences.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-Chinese Proverb-

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