The FrailtyScience.org team profoundly mourns the loss of Dr. Jeremy D. Walston, who passed on June 10, 2025 at the age of 64. Dr. Walston served as the Director of the JHU OAIC, in partnership with Dr. Bandeen-Roche, from 2008-2025. He was an internationally renowned scientist who directed numerous healthy aging research programs at Johns Hopkins. His contributions to the science of frailty and resilience provided critical insights and advancements to frailty assessment, aging-related biology, and clinical translation. Dr. Walston was a gifted program leader who fostered interdisciplinary collaborations and championed early career faculty and students as the next generation of research leaders. He was an outstanding researcher, doctor, mentor, colleague, and friend. We miss him dearly.

Please visit the posts below to learn more about Dr. Walston’s remarkable life and career, and to read reflections from his colleagues.:

The Jeremy Walston, M.D., Endowed Scholar in Aging and Geriatric Medicine Fund builds on Dr. Walston’s legacy as a compassionate physician, a renowned researcher and collaborator, and an outstanding mentor, by creating a fund to support new scholars that will last in perpetuity.  Learn more at https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/geriatric-medicine-gerontology/about/charitable-giving/walston-legacy