• 2025 ISL Student Poster Day Winners

    The Institute for Successful Longevity hosted the 2025 Poster Day and is proud to highlight the outstanding research of this year's top student winners.

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  • ISL Bi-Weekly Highlights

    As part of our new social media initiative, the Institute for Successful Longevity (ISL) is now releasing bi-weekly newsletters to share recent highlights, research updates, and ongoing activities.

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  • 2025 Esther & Del Grosser Scholarship Winner: Steven Medarev

    ISL congratulates Steven on his groundbreaking research on cardiovascular health and his journey in biomedical sciences.

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  • ISL Hosts Successful 2025 Student Poster Day Showcasing Aging Research

    The Institute for Successful Longevity (ISL) at Florida State University hosted its annual Student Poster Day on March 18, 2025, bringing together students, faculty, and researchers to celebrate innovative studies on aging, health, and longevity.

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  • Dr. Zhe He Named Director of the Institute for Successful Longevity

    FSU has appointed Dr. Zhe He as the new director of ISL, recognizing his impactful research in health informatics, aging, and AI-driven healthcare solutions.

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  • ISL Welcomes New Faculty Affiliates

    The Institute for Successful Longevity (ISL) at Florida State University is proud to welcome nine distinguished faculty members as our newest ISL Faculty Affiliates.

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  • ISL Welcomes New Outreach Assistant

    The Institute for Successful Longevity (ISL) is excited to welcome Victoria Valko, a second-year student at Florida State University, as its new Outreach Assistant

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  • ISL Director Leads Discussions on Cutting-Edge AI and Aging Research at National Conferences

    Dr. Zhe He, Director of the Institute for Successful Longevity (ISL) and Professor in the School of Information, showcased Florida State University’s leadership in health informatics and aging research at two prominent national conferences

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The Institute for Successful Longevity conducts research into how to live longer, stay active and be fully engaged in life. The institute takes a multidisciplinary approach to better explore the complexities of life as an older individual.

Over the last century Americans witnessed tremendous gains in longevity, but successful longevity is more than living to a great, old age. It is about living well as we grow older.

Living well means many things, so we draw on the talents of researchers in many fields across the Florida State University campus to look at health, cognition, recreation, mobility, financial security and other concerns.

In the past, aging was seen as a problem, a condition or malady. Today at FSU’s Institute for Successful Longevity, we see aging as a natural stage of life, and our researchers look at all the components of an older person’s experience as we pursue the causes of age-related cognitive and physical decline and translate those discoveries into practices and interventions that slow or halt these changes.

Our Goals


To understand the mechanisms of age-associated disorders and functional and cognitive declines.


To develop the best holistic interventions to counter those declines.

 

To disseminate this knowledge to the community, to aging adults and to their care-givers.


To cultivate the scientific, social, and political leadership on this issue that will engage the nation.


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