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

The 2020 Beeson Scholars are fully funded through the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

  • Claire Ankuda, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: Health Care Use After Functional Disability: Opportunities to Improve the Care of Older Adults
  • Parag Goyal, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine: A Novel Deprescribing Intervention for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF): A Prototype for Older Adults with Multimorbidity and Polypharmacy
  • Anand Iyer, MD, MSPH, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham: Aging Well with COPD through Geriatrics-Palliative Care
  • Felipe Jain, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital: Mobile app delivered Mentalizing Imagery Therapy to augment remote family dementia caregiver skills training: a pilot randomized controlled trial with outcomes assessment using digital phenotyping
  • John Mafi, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor In Residence, University of California, Los Angeles: Leveraging Electronic Health Records to Measure and Reduce Harmful Low-Value Care Among Older Adults
  • Kei Ouchi, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School: ED GOAL: An Advance Care Planning Intervention for Seriously Ill Older Adults in the Emergency Department
  • Nicole Rogus-Pulia, PhD, CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Impact of Novel Rehabilitative Approaches for Dysphagia in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
  • Myrick Shinall, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University: Specialist Palliative Care in Surgical Oncology
  • Nadia Sutton, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan: Ectonucleotidase modulation of age-dependent vascular calcification and stiffness

Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Grants for Junior Faculty

  • Berenice Benayoun, PhD, Assistant Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California: A genome-to-phenome toolkit to accelerate research into aging in a naturally short-lived vertebrate mode
  • Frederick Bennett, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: Microglia replacement to understand and treat brain aging
  • Adam Bohnert, PhD, Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University: Reversal of age-related mitochondrial damage in the C. elegans germline
  • Christina Camell, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota: Aged Adipose B cells, inflammation and impaired metabolism
  • Zhixun Dou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital: Nuclear autophagy and senescence-associated inflammation
  • Shenghui He, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: The role of epigenetic inheritance in shaping the transcriptional and epigenetic landscapes of the aging murine hematopoietic system
  • Michael Lodato, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School: Single-cell analysis of transcriptional instability and somatic mutation in human neurons
  • Claudia Moreno, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Washington: Aging one cell at a time: Heterogeneous aging behind the electrical dysfunction of the heart's pacemaker.
  • Peter Van Galen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital: Epigenetic mechanisms of stem cell expansion in the aging hematopoietic system
  • Megan Weivoda, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Dentistry: Targeting and eliminating senescent pre-tumor cells to prevent cancer

The Sagol Network GerOmic Award for Junior Faculty

  • Simone Sidoli, PhD, Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Accessible heterochromatin in exceptional longevity, a proteomics signature
  • Oscar Vivas, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington: Gero-Proteomics of the Autonomic Nervous System: A path to understanding the age-associated loss of organ control

Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG) Awards

  • Malene Hansen, PhD, Professor, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute: Non-canonical functions of autophagy genes in organismal lifespan
  • Vittorio Sebastiano, PhD, Assistant Professor of OBGyN, Stanford School of Medicine: Epigenetic Reprogramming of cellular Aging: a novel paradigm to treat aging and aging-associated diseases

Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research

  • Wei-Wen Chen, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Georgia Institute of Technology: Investigating the connection between fat metabolism and aging process with broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (BCARS) imaging
  • Cara Green, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Genes and genetic variants that determine the metabolic response to dietary protein
  • Johanna Heid, PhD, Research Fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Single-cell triple omics analysis of the aging genome, epigenome and transcriptome
  • Seokjo Kang, PhD, Postdoctoral Scientist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: The Role of CCL11 in Aging-Associated Microglial Reactivity
  • Dunja Mrdjen, PhD, MsC, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University: The cellular landscape of brain aging and Alzheimer's disease through multiplexed ion beam imaging
  • Cana Park, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco: Mechanisms of klotho and platelet activation to counter cognitive aging
  • Koning Shen, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley: The role of lysosomal to mitochondrial communication in health and aging
  • Ruth Singer, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, The Rockefeller University: Shedding light on the role of RNA binding protein-mediated RNA regulation in synaptic plasticity and aging
  • Matthew Tierney, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Rockefeller University: Interrogating the functional role of aged stem cell niche interactions in the hair follicle
  • Kyohei Tokizane, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University: Investigating the role of dorsomedial hypothalamus in mammalian aging

Diana Jacobs Kalman/AFAR Scholarships for Research in the Biology of Aging

  • Edward Anderton, Buck Institute for Research In Aging: Characterizing the human insolubleome: protein insolubility in healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease
  • Victor Ansere, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation/University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center: Reversing Age-Related Epigenetic Changes by Heterochronic Plasma Transfer
  • Sydney Boutros, Oregon Health & Science University: Age- and apoE isoform-dependent effects on pathological and adaptive DNA double strand breaks
  • Ryan Daley, Boston College: Age-related changes in structural and functional networks supporting moral-decision making
  • Shanti D'Souza, Albany Medical College: The effects of aging on mucosal associated invariant T cells during Influenza A Virus infection
  • Cody Fisher, University of Minnesota: Investigating Mitochondrial Targeted Therapeutics in Age-related Macular Degeneration
  • Oscar Hernandez Murillo, Harvard Medical School: Biochemical examination of age-dependent changes in myocardial ACC2 activity
  • Ryan Lu, University of Southern California: Understanding the sex-differences in macrophage aging
  • Ting Miao, Iowa State University: Acetylation modification of fatty acid synthase (FASN1) in liver aging
  • Christopher Morrow, University of Wisconsin - Madison: Establishing neural stem cell quiescence exit dynamics using optical metabolic imaging

Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) Scholarships

MSTAR Students Funded at Weill Cornell Medical College

  • Diana Jaber, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Linh Nguyen, University of Colorado School of Medicine
  • Gabriel Raab, Weill Cornell Medicine