2023 Grant Recipients

• Cory Baumann, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ohio University: Role of Human Antigen R (HuR) in Skeletal Muscle Adaptation and Resiliency
• Daniel Czyz, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Florida: The role of monoculture isolates from the human microbiome on aging and stress responses
• Ana Daugherty, PhD, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University: Brain Iron-Mediated Effects of Inflammation and Mitochondrial Metabolic Dysfunction on Cognitive Aging
• Hilary Grosso Jasutkar, MD, PhD, Instructor of Neurology, Rutgers University: Synaptic Autophagy in Normal Cognitive Aging
• Shuo Han, PhD, Assistant Professor, Duke University School of Medicine: Regulation of host aging and physiology by the human gut microbiota
• Roarke Kamber, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco: Identification of inter-cellular signaling axes that suppress senescent cell clearance by macrophages
• Hiroshi Kumagai, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California: The novel mitochondrial microprotein PUTZ is a potential therapeutic target for aging-associated sarcopenia and frailty
  
• Ricardo Martínez Zamudio, PhD, Assistant Professor, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School: Senescence-driven disruption of monocyte identity in aging humans
• Denis Mogilenko, PhD, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Understanding dendritic cells as a driver of immune dysfunction in aging
• Allyson Palmer, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic: Cellular Senescence and Risk of Postoperative Delirium: Applying Proteomics to Identify Potential Therapeutic Targets
• Jude Phillip, PhD, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University: Deciphering functional subtypes of senescence at single-cell resolution
• Jessica Spinelli, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School: A Novel Strategy to Restore Mitochondrial Function in Aging
• Andrea Stavoe, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston: Dynamic Regulation of Autophagy during Aging in Distinct Neuronal Types
• Qinchuan Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University: CaMKII as a cause of age-related sarcopenia

• Ya-Chieh Hsu, PhD, Professor, Harvard University: Rapid Functional Genetics to Identify Genes that can Rejuvenate Aged Stem Cells
• Xuebing Wu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Columbia University Irving Medical Center: Aging as a self-reinforcing feedback loop: investigate the role of noncoding translation

• Turan Aghayev, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF: Role of an exercise liver-to-brain rejuvenation axis in restoring regenerative and cognitive function in aging
• Zhongchi Li, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Weill Cornell Medicine: Investigating the role of propionate metabolism in aging
• Ting Miao, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School Department of Genetics: The pathophysiological role of gut microbiota-derived acetate under aging
• Daniel Robinson, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University: Identifying the upstream regulators of the gerozyme 15-PGDH to mitigate its overexpression in aging and maintain tissue homeostasis and health
• Zachary Sebo, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University: Molecular Basis of Metformin Action in Treating Age-Related Disease
• Gunjan Singh, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University: Determining the role of Dosage Compensation Complex in regulation of sex-specific aging of brain
• Lichao Wang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Connecticut Health Center: Gut microbiome changes associated with p21high cell clearance in aging
  
• Jiping Yang, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University Medical Center: Identification and characterization of functional non-coding variants associated with human longevity
• Hanlin Zhang, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California Berkeley: Remodeling of the extracellular matrix promotes longevity via mitochondrial signaling
• Sen Zhang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Chicago: Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Aging by the Bone Marrow Niche

• Uchit Bhaskar, University of Texas at San Antonio: Age-associated signatures of fibroblast-derived induced astrocytes
  
• Michael Gilbert, University of Pennsylvania: Rescue of shortened lifespan as a function of social isolation in ants
  
• Aya Kobeissi, SUNY Upstate Medical University: Oxytocin modulation of empathetic behaviors in aging and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.
  
• Mitchell Marta-Ariza, NYU Grossman School of Medicine: Identification of Molecular Mechanisms in Aging and Alzheimer’s disease Using Unbiased Localized Proteomics in Human Amyloid-Beta Plaques
  
• Avery Sukienik, University of Virginia: Elaboration of ADH1 Mechanism in Promoting Longevity and Healthspan in C. elegans and Confirming Mammalian Conservation
  
• Nikoleta Tamvaka, Mayo Clinic: Leveraging spatial transcriptomics to investigate the role of tau isoform-specific aggregation in neurodegeneration and aging.
  
• Shruti Venkat, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: Cellular rejuvenation: Nuclear pore complex turnover during germ cell-to-maternal transition.
  
• Ping Wang, Case Western Reserve University: Analysis of Plasma Biomarkers in the Amish to Enhance Understandings of Heritability and Genetics of Alzheimer Disease
• Grace Yu, Mayo Clinic: Characterizing and Targeting Cellular Senescence in Chronic Wounds
  

• Denise Cai, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: Memory stability and flexibility across a lifetime
• Christoph Thaiss, PhD, University of Pennsylvania: Counteracting age-associated cognitive decline via gut-brain signaling

• Timothy Rhoads, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison: The role of hepatic RNA processing in the beneficial metabolic effects of caloric restriction
  

The 2023 Beeson Scholars are fully funded through the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• Sandra Aleksic, MD, Assistant Professor, Einstein College of Medicine: The Role of Hypothalamic Dysfunction in Accelerating Aging in Humans
• Lindsay Hampson, MD, MAS, Associate Professor of Urology, University of California, San Francisco: Improving Patient-Centered Decision-Making for Stress Urinary Incontinence Treatment in Older Men
• Bharati Kochar, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital: Incorporating Geriatric Constructs into Management of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases in Older Adults
• Daniel Roh, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine: Targeting Senescence to Improve Wound Healing in Aging

• Kevin Beier, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California Irvine: Do aging-related neuropathologies spread through neuronal synapses?
  
• Alexander Bick, PhD, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Identifying clonal hematopoiesis resiliency mechanisms
  
• Caitlin Davis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Yale University: Spatiotemporal Rewiring of Lipid Metabolism in Aging Tissues
  
• Jason DeFreitas, PhD, Professor of Exercise Science, Syracuse University: Mechanisms of Degradation across the Lifespan: The Role of Descending Tract Function on Age-Related Sensory-Motor Deficits
• Luke Evans, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder: Gene-Gene Interaction Associations with Frailty to Identify Core Genes of Aging and their Biological Context
  
• Bhanu Ganesh, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston: Aging Together: The Role of The Gut Microbiota and Its Influence on Host Immunity
  
• Jonathan Gootenberg, PhD, Investigator/Faculty Member, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School: Discovery and manipulation of transcription factors stem cell rejuvenation in aged bone-marrow
• Sung Min Han, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Florida: Exploring the Systemic Regulation of Organismal Longevity and Health through Individual Neuron Mitochondrial Stress
• Dan Jane-wit, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine: Complement Protein Aggregates in Age-Related Amyloidosis
• Janine Kwapis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University: Reversing an epigenetic mechanism that limits memory flexibility in old age
  
• Sreemathi Logan, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences: Delineating senescence in the context of brain-adipose axis in aging
  
• Payel Sen, PhD, Stadtman Investigator, National Institute on Aging NIH: Targeting epigenetic mechanisms in progenitor cells for functional rejuvenation of whole organs
  
• Simone Sidoli, PhD, Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: The role of histone succinylation in exceptional longevity defined using single cell resolution
  
• Rebecca Voorhees, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar; Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology: Inhibition of MTCH2 as a novel modality for ageing therapy
  
• Siyuan Wang, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University: Developing a high-content spatial transcriptomic screen method to discover novel regulators of cell-cell interaction in the native senescent microenvironment
  
• Reyhan Westbrook, PhD, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University: Leveraging Kynurenine Pathway Manipulation to Improve Metabolic Dysfunction and Extend Healthspan in Mice
  
• Maxwell Wilson, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California Santa Barbara: Unraveling Aging Mysteries through Optogenetic Dissection of ISR Dysregulation
  
• Bokai Zhu, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh: Rejuvenation of nuclear speckles to delay aging
  

• Abhay Tiwari, Weill Cornell Medicine
• Jay Jaber, Baylor College of Medicine
• Rana Barghout, Weill Cornell Medicine