AFAR Research Grants for Junior Faculty

Luis Batista, PhD, Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis: The impact of progressive telomere shortening on mitochondria function and energy metabolism of human stem cells

Peter Douglas, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center: Stress mediated actin phosphorylation in endocytosis and age regulation

Sergei Doulatov, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Washington: The role of autophagy in hematopoietic stem cell aging

Michael Garratt, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan: Sensory perception of the social environment: regulation of mouse development, metabolism and aging

Vyacheslav Labunskyy, PhD, Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine: ER stress resistance and longevity

Darcie Moore, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison: The molecular mechanism underlying asymmetric segregation of aging factors in mammalian neural stem cells

Vittorio Sebastiano, PhD, Assistant Professor, Stanford School of Medicine: Transient reprogramming for efficient cell-autonomous reversal of age-associated phenotypes

Archana Unnikrishnan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Research, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center: Role of DNA mehtylation in Dietary Restriction mediated insulin sensitivity

Rui Xiao, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Florida: Cold-Shock Proteins (CSPs) in stress response and lifespan modulation

Amir Zarrinpar MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego: The Relationship of Gut Luminal Dynamics and Aging-Related Circadian Dysfunction and Dysmetabolism

New Investigator Awards in Alzheimer's Disease

Congcong He, PhD, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University: Role of Becn2 in modulation of annabinoid signaling and Alzheimer's disease

Arieh Moussaieff, PhD, Senior Lecturer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Exploring the role and regulation of phospholipids in the AD brain.

Hsiao-Ying Wey, PhD, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital: Imaging Epigenetic Mechanisms of Alzheimer's Disease with PET/MRI

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

Arthritis and Aging Research Grant

Brian Diekman, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University: Cellular Senescence as a driver and therapeutic target for osteoarthritis (OA)

Glenn/AFAR Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG) Awards

Pinchas Cohen, MD, Dean- Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California: Charcterization of the Healthspan Promoting Actvity of the Mitochondrial Peptide Humanin

William Mair, PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: The role of RNA splicing in TORC1 physiology in mammals

Glenn/AFAR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Translational Research on Aging

Mohammad Parvez Alam, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Harvard Medical School: Orally bioavailable nicotinic acid riboside multimers to slow the effects of aging by design

Lear Brace, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Buck Institute for Research on Aging: Mechanisms of sexual dimorphism and mTORC1 effectors in type II diabetes and aging

Leah Cuddy, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University: Mechanisms of a novel angiotensin converting enzyme 1 mutation in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis

Neil Dani, PhD, Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School: Activity-dependent clearance of cerebrospinal fluid in the aging brain

Mladen Jergovic, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Arizona: Administration of cytokines and pattern recognition to improve the aged immune response

Min-Dian Li, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health: Targeting fatty acid binding protein aP2 to prevent age-associated metabolic decline

James Markworth, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan: Aging and the resolution of skeletal muscle inflammation

Aya Namba, MD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan: Sex-Steroids in Aging Women: the Role of the Adrenal Gland

Nathalie Saurat, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Identifying novel strategies to induce age-associated damage in human pluripotent stem cell models of Alzheimer's disease

Huiliang Zhang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington: SS-31 reversal of mitochondrial dysfunction in the aging heart

Glenn/AFAR Scholarships for Research in the Biology of Aging

Andrew Davidson, Tulane University School of Medicine: Compensatory strategy for motor learning in the aged mouse cortex due to excitation-inhibition imbalance

Emily Davis, University of California, San Francisco: Sex and Mitochondrial Fitness in the Aging Brain

Kerui Huang, Iowa State University: Functional and Tarnscriptional Analysis on Activin-Mediated Autophagy in Liver Aging

Erica Lorenzo, University of Connecticut Health Center: Examining the Effects of Senescent Cells on CD4 T cell effector Functions

Ramsey Najm, Gladstone, UCSF: hiPSC-Derived MGE Progenitor Transplantation in Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Models

Stephanie Post. Brown University: Determining lifespan effects in Drosophila melanogaster of the phosphorylation state of glycogen phosphorylase and epistatic interactions with insulin-like peptide dilp2

Pradeep Ramalingam MD, MBBS, Weill Cornell Medical College: Endothelial-specific mTOR signaling drives hematopoietic stem cell aging

Joseph Reynolds, University of Southern California: Exercise Induced Mitochonrial Peptide Prevents Age-dependent Physical Decline

Aref Shahini, University at Buffalo, the State Univeristy of New York: NANOG Expression Restores the Myogenic Differentiation of Myoblasts after Organismal Aging or Cellular Senescence

Yee Voan Teo, Brown University: Cellular heterogeneity in senescence

Maitreyi Upadhyay, University at Albany, SUNY: Transposon mediated Wnt signaling regulates germline stem cell differentiation in Drosophila

Joe Webb Iowa State University: Genetic Regulation of Metabolism in the Aging Human Brain by Sirtuin Genes

Chia-An Yen, University of Southern California: Mitochondrial ALH-6's Role in the Male Reproductive Senescence

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

The Irene Diamond Fund/AFAR Postdoctoral Transition Awards in Aging

Sebastian Brandhorst, Dr. rer. nat., Research Associate, University of Southern California: A fasting-mimicking diet delays aging phenotypes by senolytic targeting of p16-positive senescent cells in vivo

Christina Camell, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale School of Medicine: GDF3 controls age-induced NLRP3 inflammasome-induced adipose dysregulation during aging

Yejing Ge, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, The Rockefeller University: Investigating stem cell lineage infidelity in aged skin

Geraldine Gontier, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco: Role of Tet2 in regulating regenerative and cognitive rejuvenation in the aging brain

Rizwan Qaisar, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: Activation of the SERCA ATPase as an Intervention for Sarcopenia

Payel Sen, PhD, Research Associate, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania: Epigenetic mechanisms contributing to loss of transcriptional fidelity during senescence and aging

Ming Xu, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mayo Clinic: Using senolytic drugs to alleviate age-related frailty and inflammation

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

2017 Beeson Scholars are fully funded through the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Miles Berger, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center: Neuro-inflammation in postoperative cognitive dysfunction:CSF and fMRI studies

Charles Brown, MD, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University: Monitoring Cerebral Autoregulation in Patients Undergoing Traumatic Hip Fracture Surgery to Improve Postoperative Outcomes

Lauren Ferrante, MD, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Yale University: The PREDICT Study (PRE-ICU Determinants of Post-ICU FunCTional Outcomes among Older Adults)

Jonathan Graff-Radford, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic: Cerebral Microbleeds in the aging population

Caroline Stephens RN, PhD, GNP, Associate Professor ,University of California, San Francisco: Improving Palliative Care Access through Technology (ImPAcTT): A Multi-Component Pilot Study

Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) Program

MSTAR Students Privately Funded in New York City

John Butterworth, Weill Cornell Medicine

Anna Cai, Weill Cornell Medicine

Rebecca Chandler, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Emily Chase, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Sida Chen, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Sophia Chiu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ariela Hazan, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Zina Huxley-Reicher, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Lisa Koenig, Weill Cornell Medicine

Joshua Loewenstern, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Rio O'Mary, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Sara Pasik, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Aishwarya Raja, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Christopher Root, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Joseph Schnitter, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Stephanie Schonholz, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Amy Sun, Weill Cornell Medicine

Wayne Sy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Hua-Hsin Tai, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Patrick Yong, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai