George A. Kuchel is Professor of Medicine, Travelers Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology, and Director of the UConn Center on Aging at UConn Health in Farmington, CT.

His work focuses on Precision Gerontology and Geroscience. This effort seeks 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 UConn Older Americans Independence Pepper Center, the NIA Geroscience Education and Training Network, and the KAPP-Sen NIH Common Fund Cellular Senescence Tissue Mapping Center. Dr Kuchel also serves as MPI of the NIA Translational Geroscience Network.