AFAR Research Grants for Junior Faculty

Hua Bai, PhD, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University: Ligand-specific regulation of TGF-beta mediated muscle aging and longevity

Gabrielle Fredman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Albany Medical College: Specialized Pro-Resolving Mediators in Aging

Jennifer Garrison, PhD, Assistant Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging: Investigating the role of oxytocin signaling in aging

Eric Greer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School: Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance of Longevity

Guo Huang, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco: Cardiac Regenerative Potential in Mammalian Development and Aging

Changhan Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California: A Novel Mitochondrial-Encoded Regulator of Aging Metabolism

Scott Leiser, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan: A conserved role of flavin-containing monooxygenases in promoting stress resistance, health and longevity

Joseph Rodgers, PhD, Assistant Professor, The Keck School of Medicine of USC: The effects of mitochondrial biogenesis on stem cell dysfunction and impaired healing in aging

Brian Zid, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego: Aggregation of RNA-binding proteins and their effects on gene expression during aging in S. cerevisiae

New Investigators in Alzheimer's Disease

Bess Frost, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio: Investigating a Toxic Role of Nucleoplasmic Reticulum Expansion in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Tauopathies

Yonatan Savir, PhD, Assistant Professor, Technion: Determining the effect of replicative and chorological age on toxicity of amyloid-B and tau protein in yeast as a model for age dependent neurotoxic death

Yin Shen, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco: Deciphering the Genetic Basis of Alzheimer's Disease by Novel Functional Genomic Approaches

AFAR is grateful to The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundaton for their support of and collaboration on this program.

Glenn/AFAR Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG) Awards

Rozalyn Anderson, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison: The Role of GSK3beta in neuronal metabolism in the aging brain

Shin-Ichiro Imai, MD, PhD, Professor, Washington University School of Medicine: The role of adipose tissue in the systemic regulation of mammalian aging and longevity

Glenn/AFAR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Translational Research on Aging

Jenna Bartley, PhD, University Postdoc Fellow 1, University of Connecticut: Prevention of Age-associated Influenza-induced Inflammation, Muscle Atrophy and Disability

John Collins, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: SIRT6 as a novel therapeutic target in aging and osteoarthritis

Evgeni Frenkel, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Tracking the dynamics and selective autophagy to elucidate its role in cell-intrinsic aging

Jessica Hoffman, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Alabama at Birmingham: The metabolomic consequences of size and age in the domestic dog: a new model of human morbidity and mortality

Liam Hunt, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, St Jude Children's Research Hospital: Global analysis of ubiquitin ligases that control muscle growth and sarcopenia

Timothy Jarome, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Alabama at Birmingham: The role of DNA hydroxymethylation in age-related memory decline induced by early life stress

Jamie Justice, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wake Forest University School of Medicine: Relation of senescent cell burden to physical and metabolic function in human aging

Su Jeong Kim, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California: Investigating the senolytic function of mitochondrial peptides

Marissa Schafer, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mayo Clinic: Targeting cellular senescence to attenuate pulmonary fibrosis

Xiaoai Zhao, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University: Fat metabolism regulation in neural stem cell aging and rejuvenation

Glenn/AFAR Scholarships for Research in the Biology of Aging

Meredith Course, Stanford University: The roleof PINK1-mediated phosphorylation of MCAD in age-related neurodegeneration

Allessandra Dall'Agnese, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute: Aging-induced chromatin resistance to differentation stimuli in skeletal muscle cells

Victoria Dominguez, Ohio State University: Maintaining bone quality: the role of cortical microdamage in increased fracture risk

Linna Guan, Stanford University: Assessment of age-related gene expression by whole transcriptome sequencing after reinoid exporsure to rejuvenate human skin

Chelsea Hays, University of California, San Diego: Vascular and neurodegenerative mechanism of age-related cognitive decline

Richard Jin, University of Buffalo: Understanding the role of infection and immune regulation in age-related sarcopenia

Sun Kim, Brown University: Elucidating the transcriptional networks that preserve neural stem cell function in the aging brain

Mai Nakamura, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: Investigating the role of a novel GPI-anchor cleaving enzyme GDE2 in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis

Dean Nehama, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Immunologic clearance of senescent cells in vivo

Justin Nicholatos, Cornell University: SIRT6 promotes apoptosis in response to cellular stress

Raghav Ramabadran, Baylor College of Medicine: The impact of age-associated DNMT3A mutations on stem cell aging

Jimi Rosenkrantz, Ohio State University: Somatic anueuploidy in the aging brain

AFAR is grateful to the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research for their support of and collaboration on the above grant programs.

The Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging (K76)

2016 Beeson Scholars are fully funded through the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Nathan Brummel MD, MSCI, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University

Zara Cooper MD, MSc., FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Eleni Linos MD, DrPH, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco

Brendan Lucey, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine

Hillary Lum, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Denver and VA Eastern Colorado GRECC

Ana Pereira, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Investigation, Rockefeller University

Anthony Rosen MD, MPH, Instructor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

Phillip Smith, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut

Andrew Teich, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) Program

Rachel Agubosim, The University of Toledo

Leyla Akhverdiyeva, University of Texas Medical Branch

Thara Ali, New York University School of Medicine

Pallavi Basu, University of California, San Diego

Katie Lynn Bedard, New York Medical College

Emily Benton, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Scott Berkheimer, Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Elizabeth Bloemen, University of Colorado

Forrest Brooks, New York University School of Medicine

Elizabeth Brown, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Lindsey Carvalho, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine

Kyungmin Chae, Eastern Virginia Medical School

Deepa Chellappa, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Connie Chen, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Steven Chen, University of Cincinnati

Tiffaniy Chen, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Michael Chen, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

Justin Cheng, Florida International University

Monica Cheng, University of Texas HSC at Houston

Mindy Chua, University of Washington

Jamie Cohen, SUNY Upstate Medical University

Michela Corsi, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Meaghan Costello, University of Cincinnati

Isabel Cuervo, Weill Cornell Medical College

Rebecca Ellis, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Meghana Eswarappa, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Helena Gali, University of California, San Diego

Tess Gao, University of Toledo

Michael Gehring, Medical College of Wisconsin

Eliza Gentzler, Weill Cornell Medical College

Danielle Gillard, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Meryl Gold, University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine

Tomas Gonzalez, UTHSCSA

Heinrich-Karl Greenblatt, University of Cincinnati

Daniel Grier, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Jacline Griffeth, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

Smriti Gupta, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Alex Hansen, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Alexandra Horne, Duke University

Alexander Houck, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Justin Howard, University of Texas Medical Branch

Moudi Hubeishy, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine

Samantha Humann, University of Colorado

Kevin Huynh, Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Lotanna Ikeotuonye, UTHSCSA

William Tyler Jenson, UTHSCSA

Justin Johal, UTHSCSA

Victoria Kim, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine

Kelly Kiser, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Melanie Koren, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Saritha Kosarussavadi, Virginia Commonwealth University

Kayla Krajick, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Abhishek Kumar, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Kellie Kurasaki, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine

Jennifer La, UTHSCSA

Jason Lambden, Weill Cornell Medical College

Tyler Lanman, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Rachel Lee, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine

Tatyana Lemelman, New York Medical College

Hayley Leonard, Ohio State University

Isaiah Levy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Amy Li, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine

Naomi Liang, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine

Brian Licht, Eastern Virginia Medical School

Catherine Lindsay, University of Utah

Serena Liu, University of Southern California

Rosemary Liu, UTHSCSA

Jason Livingstone, UTHSCSA

Bryson Lochte, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Emily Lukose, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Mahsa Madani, UTHSCSA

Martin Maldonado-Puebla, Ponce Health Sciences University

Sarah Marone, Boston University School of Medicine

Reyshley Marquez, University of Puerto Rico-School of Medicine

Ryan McMahan, University of California, San Francisco

Emily Menand, Weill Cornell Medical College

Matthew Messana, University of Cincinnati

Adam Miller, Medical College of Wisconsin

Nagambika Munaganuru, Stony Brook University

Kelechi Ndukwe, Medical College of Wisconsin

Pushpa Neppala, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

An Viet Nguyen, Stony Brook University

Olisemeka Okafor, Rowan University of Osteopathic Medicine

Hannah Oppenheim, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Ashley Oskardmay, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jayce Pangilinan, University of Arizona Colllege of Medicine

Jean Pannikottu, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Sung Woong Park, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mansi Patel, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Sonal Patel, New York University School of Medicine

Ashley Peterson, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine - Georgia Campus

Lauren Philips, University of Michigan Medical School

Maegan Pollard, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Katherine Pouns, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Basem Rashwan, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Shayna Ratner, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Julianna Ricco, Thomas Jefferson University

Jessica Rizzuto, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Calvin Rock, UTHSCSA

Maria Rodriguez Santiago, University of Puerto Rico

Katie Rong, SUNY Upstate Medical University

Samantha Sabban, Lake Erie College of Oteopathic Medicine - Bradenton

Anjali Saripalli, University of Michigan

Sarah Schear, University of California, Berkeley

Catherine Shir, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Justin Shortell, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine

Aditi Simlote, University of Rochester

Joshua Sixon, Florida International University, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Katherine Stiff, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Jamie Takayesu, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine

Jasmine Tatum, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Emily Tixier, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Rodrigo Torres, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Karina Torres Tristani, University of Puerto Rico

Alexis Tracy, UTHSCSA

Thu Tran, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Thomas Trieu, Pennsylvania State University

Allen Tsai, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Maurice Turner, University of California, Los Angeles

Matthew Van Dongen, Eastern Virginia Medical School

Meghana Vemuganti, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Marie Vogel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Carrie Vuong, New York University

Mathew Whittaker, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

John Wilson, UTHSCSA

Kevin Wu, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Hope Xu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Keolamau Yee, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine

Sylvia Yong, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Stanley Yuan, University of California, Los Angeles

Sarah Zarrin, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Aisling Zhao, University of Michigan