AFAR Research Grant Program

Sean P. Curran, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California: Characterization of novel skn-1/Nrf activation pathways that influence lifespan

Radoslaw Dobrowolski, PhD, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, Newark: Altered Molecular Trafficking Inhibits GSK3/Wnt Signaling leading to Phospho-Tau build-up in Early and Late Onset Alzheimer's Disease

Mark E. Kleinman, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky Research Foundation: Fluorescent Cell Death Probes for the Early Detection and Inhibition of Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Aparna Lakkaraju, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Role of lysosome function and autophagy in age-realted macular degeneration

Jeannine LaRocque, PhD, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University: The effects of aging on double-strand break repair

Viviana I. Perez, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University: Nrf-2 pathway and the inhibition of cell senescence by rapamycin

Adam Salmon, PhD, Research Health Scientist & Assistant Professor/Research, Biomedical Research Foundation of South Texas, Inc.: Protein oxidation as a cause of age-associated insulin resistance

Deepa Sathyaseelan, PhD, Research Assistant Member, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: Mitochondrial matrix protease ClpP in aging and cell survival

Megan J. Smithey, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine: The contribution of age-related complement dysfunction on T cell immunity to infection

New Investigator Awards in Alzheimer's Disease

Mark Andermann, PhD, Instructor in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Chronic Imaging of Cortical activity, plaque formation and neurovascular integrity

Itzik Cooper, PhD, Researcher, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer: The contribution of long term instability of glycemic control to hippocampal structure, function, and BBB disruption

Carlos Cruchaga, PhD, Assistant Professor, Washington University: Identification of additional risk variants and functional characterization of TREM2 and PLD3

Kim Green, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine: Replacing senescent microglia with new cells as a preventative for brain aging and Alzheimer's disease

Tae Ho Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Role of Death-Associated Protein Kinase 1 in the Development and Treatment of Tauopathies

The Gilbert Foundation/AFAR Collaborative Research Awards in Alzheimer's Disease

Olivier Boutaud, PhD, Research Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University

Ehud Cohen, PhD, Assistant Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Chad Dickey, PhD, Associate Professor, University of South Florida Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute

Qi Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University

Glenn/AFAR Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG) Grantees

Giovanni Bosco, PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth: Condensins and mechanisms of cellular senescence and aging

Amy E. Pasquinelli, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology, University of California, San Diego: Collapse of the MicroRNA Pathway During Aging

Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging Research

Marian Betz, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver: Physician Screening of Older Drivers: Decision Rules for Geriatric Injury Prevention

Constance Fung, MD, MSHS, Clinical Instructor, University of California, Los Angeles: Improving Older Adults' Decision Making for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Treatment

William Hu, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Emory University: Early CSF detection of FTLD

Daniel Kramer, MD, Instructor in Medicine, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged: Patient-Center Outcomes of Implantable Defibrillator Therapy in Older Patients

Ozioma Okonkwo, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Early detection of asymptomatic middle-age adults at risk for AD

Janey Peterson, EdD, MS, RN, Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College: INSPIRE: Intervention to Support Participation in Regular Exercise in the Elderly

Vivek Prabhakaran, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Stroke Plasticity

Ellison Medical Foundation/ AFAR Postdoctoral Fellows

Chiao-Lin Chen, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School: Dissecting the relationship between mitochondrial changes and aging

Ying Ann Chiao, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington: Reversal of cardiac aging by subacute treatment with rapamycin: mechanisms of proteomic and metabolic remodeling

Alexis Cogswell, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Northwestern University: The role of the stem cell niche in regeneration and longevity in planarians

Collin Ewald, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Joslin Diabetes Center: The impact on aging of preferential translational of ATF-5

Kristen Fortney, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University: Pathway guided analysis of supercentenarian genomes: Uncovering genomic mechanisms of disease resistance and extreme longevity

Christin Glorioso, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Harnessing SNPs to investigate Sirtuin regulation of human brain aging

Meltem Isik, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Joselin Diabetes Center, Inc.: Investigation of TORC1-inhibition dependent SKN-1/Nrf activity and its effect on longevity

Philipp Jaeger, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Departments of Medicine and Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego: The Aging Network: A Genome-wide Analysis of Telomere Maintenance and Cellular Senescence

Ranveer Singh Jayani, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine: Roles of Variants of the 9p21 Gene Locus, Enhancers and Non-coding RNAs in Human Cellular Aging

Brice Keyes, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Rockefeller University: Molecular Mechanisms of Aging in Hair Follicle Stem Cells

Caroline Kumsta, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute: Linking autophagy and stress response pathways in C. elegans longevity models

Elena Mancini, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Genetics, Stanford University: Unveiling aging and rejuvenation mechanisms through cellular reprogramming

Qian Qi, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University: Defects in controlling memory inflation accelerate immune aging

Karl Rodriguez, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio: Chaperone-Mediated Protein Degradation Contributes to Longevity and Health Span in the Long-Lived Naked Mole-Rat

Antoine E. Roux, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Francisco: A new experimental system for the study of rejuvenation

Deborah Toiber, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Massachusetts General Hospital: The Histone Deacetylase SIRT6 Modulates Genomic Stability, Neurodegeneration and aging

Lifen Wang, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Buck Institute for Research on Aging: Age-related stem cell de-regulation by ER stress in Intestinal stem cell in Drosophila

Arthritis and Aging Research Grant

Mara McAdams DeMarco, PhD, Instructor, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) Program

Regina Addo, Indiana University

Marissa Anto, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Brogan Bahler, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Gal Barak, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ronnie Barakat, University of Texas Medical Branch

Donovan Barfield, University of California, San Francisco

David Bayne, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Kimberly Beiting, University of Illinois at Chicago

Laura Belland, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

James Richard Broughman II, University of North Carolina

Lucille Brunker, University of Utah

Andrea Bucci, University of Hawaii

Amanda Marie Cady, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Jimmy Chan, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Christine Chan, University of Hawaii

Stephanie Charles, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Catherine Chiu, University of California, San Francisco

Guang-Ting Cong, Weill Cornell Medical College

Melissa Corson, University of Hawaii

Cordell Cunningham, University of Texas Medical Branch

Aleksandra Daina, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Sarah Daley, University of Arizona

Stewart Dandorf, University of Arizona

Vanessa Danquah, University of Texas Medical Branch

Vinh Dao, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Carine Davila, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Linh Do, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Akua Domfe, University of Cincinnati

Seth Einterz, Georgetown University School of Medicine

Joseph Falcone, University of Washington

Hillary Fitzgerald, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Bridget Foley, University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine

Jared Foote, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Eleni Footman, Georgetown University School of Medicine

Kenji Fujitani, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Lawrence Geyman, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Shi-Jeng (Winston) Goan, Case Western Reserve University

Alicia Gray, University of Washington

Kristina Grim, University of Utah

Bruno Gross, Texas A&M Health Science Center

Jeffrey Hardesty, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Aws Hasan, Wayne State University

Elizabeth Hinds, Case Western Reserve University

Marina Hitosugi-Levesque, University of Hawaii

Juliana Hoffelder, University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine

Sarah Huepenbecker, University of Pennsylvania

Katherine Hunold, University of Virginia

Maria Islam-Meredith, University of Washington

Khadija Ismail, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Caitlin Dacey Jackson, Ohio State University College of Medicine

Samantha Jagannathan, Saint Louis University

Karl Janich, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Hillary Jenny, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Christine Kasbarian, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Tanner Kim, University of Hawaii

Daniel Kim, University of Michigan

Margaret Kim, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Elizabeth Kistler, University of Rochester

Stephanie Koh, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Preeti Kohli, Stony Brook University

Brian Ku, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Aleksandra Kuczmarska, The Commonwealth Medical College

Regina Kwon, University of Colorado Denver

Craig Labbate, Baylor College of Medicine

Sarah Leavitt, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Alexandra Lee, Florida International University

Jay Lee, University of North Texas Health Science Center

Lei Lei, Ohio State University College of Medicine

Lingsheng Li, University of Oklahoma

Helen Lin, University of Alabama School of Medicine

Eric Lin, University of California, Los Angeles

On Ying Liu, Saint Louis University

Roy Liu, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Melissa Ludgate , University of Arizona

Princeton Ly, University of Hawaii

Josie Maione, University of Cincinnati

Camille Malatt, University of California, San Diego

Diane Mar, University of Nevada

Brian Marcus, Yale University

Kate Mayans, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Sean Mayerik, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Natasha Mehta, Weill Cornell Medical College

Colleen Menegaz, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Shravani Mikkilineni, University of Michigan

Ashley Miller, University of Michigan

Stephanie Mishaw, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Shelley Mo, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Carmel Moazez, University of Arizona

Robin Moiseff, University of Connecticut Health Center

Bharathi Muthusamy, Indiana University

David Nagle, University of California, San Diego

Jeremy Nathaniel, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Monica Neuman, Creighton University

Kristen Ng, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Thanh Huong Le Nguyen, University of Colorado Denver

Eric Nielsen, University of Rochester

Sonal Noticewala, University of California, San Diego

Si Won (Allen) Oak, University of Alabama School of Medicine

Rafael Oania, University of Hawaii

Opeyemi Oluyemi, Western University of Health Sciences

Lauren Oshima, University of Hawaii

Kelli Paice, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Sagar Patel, Boston University

Rishi Patel, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Brendan Payne, University of North Carolina

Brandon Perkovich, University of California, San Francisco

Caroline Pinke, Weill Cornell Medical College

Raghuveer Puttagunta, Baylor College of Medicine

Srinidhi Reddy, University of Cincinnati

Michael Richter, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Kyle Roedersheimer, University of North Carolina

Sunita Saith, Oakland University

Christine Schaeffer, University of Cincinnati

Christopher Schifeling, University of North Carolina

Jedidiah Schlung, University of California, San Diego

Anna Schuler, Saint Louis University

Adi Shafir, University of Pittsburgh

William Smith, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Steffan Soosman, University of Hawaii

Horacio Sosa, Jr., University of North Texas Health Science Center

Sara Spinella, University of Rochester

Kavya Sreevalsan, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Hans Friedrich Stabenau, Yale University

Katherine Stingl, University of California, San Diego

Kirandeep Sumra, University of Arizona

Jing Sun, University of Connecticut Health Center

Aarushi Suneja, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Katherine Talbott, University of Cincinnati

Alana Taniguchi, University of Hawaii

Cory Taylor, Baylor College of Medicine

Timnit Tekeste, Medical College of Wisconsin

Julie Ngoc Thai, Michigan State University

Chelsea Therrien, University of Texas Medical Branch

Rebecca Touger, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Jennifer Tran, Virginia Commonwealth University

Philip Tulio, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Kartik Viswanathan, Weill Cornell Medical College

Diep Vuong, University of Hawaii

Jacob Walker, Boston University

Erica Wang, University of Hawaii

Shawna Watson, Florida Atlantic University

Steven Wilkening, University of Mississippi

Casey Williamson, University of California, San Diego

Stephanie Wong, UMDNJ - School of Osteopathic Medicine

Jonathan Wong, University of Hawaii

Samuel Woodworth, Weill Cornell Medical College

Cheng (Michael) Yu, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Lindy Zhang, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

James Zhang, University of California, San Diego

Dalee Zhou, Weill Cornell Medical College

Glenn/AFAR Scholarships for Research in the Biology of Aging

David Adamowicz, University of California, San Diego: Characterize induced pluripotent stem cell models of age-related neurodegeneration and optimize transfection methods for future live imaging

Alexander Birbrair, Wake Forest School of Medicine: The role of pericyte subtypes in skeletal muscle regeneration with aging

Zachary Harvanek, University of Michigan: Neurosensory mechanisms underlying modulation of aging through pheromone perception in Drosophila

Shauna Hill, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio: Role of Mitochondrial Lon Protease in Cellular Senescence

Cynthia Hsu, University of California, San Diego: Role of Map4K3 in Autophagy Induction Pathway

Yash Joshi, Temple University School of Medicine: Involvement of 5-lipoxygenase in the development of stress-mediated Alzheimer's disease pathology and cognitive decline

Melody Lun, Boston University School of Medicine: Characterizing IGF2 availability in aging cerebrospinal fluid

Maria Purice, Oregon Health & Science University: Age related decline in glial immune activity

Seungjin Ryu, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Functional genomics approach to elucidate the role of cognitive function genes in human longevity

Mitsukuni Yoshida, Washington University School of Medicine: Role of osteoglycin in SIRT1-mediated longevity