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2024 Press Releases

Thomas A. Rando, MD, PhD, elected President of AFAR Board of Directors

Laura M. Barzilai, JD, LLM elected Chair of AFAR Board of Directors

2023 Press Releases

Announcing the the 2023 McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss

New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research Expanded with $16 Million Commitment from Hevolution Foundation

Announcing the ten 2023 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research

2023 Scientific Awards Lectures at GSA Annual Meeting, Tampa, on November 10

Announcing the 2023 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Research Grants for Junior Faculty

Ya-Chieh Hsu, PhD (Harvard) and Xuebing Wu, PhD (Columbia) receive inaugural Glenn Foundation Discovery Awards

NIH researcher Rafael de Cabo, PhD receives AFAR 2023 Irving S. Wright Award

Ming Xu, PhD (UConn) receives AFAR 2023 Rising Star Award in Aging Research

Claire K. Ankuda, MD, MPH (Mount Sinai Health System) recognized with AFAR 2023 Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Research

Announcing inaugural Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research

2022 Press Releases

Announcing 2022 Sagol Network GerOmic Award for Junior Faculty

Glenn Foundation Discovery Award Launched, Junior Faculty Grants and Postdoctoral Fellows Funding Also Increased

2022 McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss

What Underpins Exceptional Longevity? Unprecedented SuperAgers Family Study Launches Today

Announcing the 2022 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Grants for Junior Faculty Recipients

Announcing the 2022 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellows in Aging Research Recipients

Announcing the 2022 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG) Awards: EDWARD CHOUCHANI, PHD (DANA-FARBER) AND ÖMER YILMAZ, MD, PHD (MIT)

US $8.5 million to drive global aging science, supporting junior investigators conducting multi-year research to extend healthy lifespan

American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) to Recruit 10,000 People 95+ for Groundbreaking SuperAgers Initiative

2022 AFAR Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Research Announced: Benjamin Han, MD, MPH.

2022 AFAR Scientific Awards of Distinction Announced: Thomas M. Gill, MD, receives Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction and Jamie N. Justice, PhD, receives Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star Award in Aging Research

Inaugural Winners Selected for the 2021 McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss


2021 Press Releases

Applying Systems Biology to Aging Research: AFAR recognizes Junyue Cao of Rockefeller University with 2021 Sagol Network GerOmic Award for Junior Faculty

$2.26 Million in Grants will support Biomedical Research on Aging: American Federation for Aging Research and Glenn Foundation for Medical Research announce 2021 Grant Recipients

AFAR Scientific Awards of Distinction Lectures at GSA Annual Meeting on November 12, 2021

Media Alert: Pfizer, NIH, and Aging Research Experts to speak on Nov 3 at AFAR online symposium, Science is Vital

NIA awards up to $5 million to Wake Forest University and AFAR to continue leading the Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN)

Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN (UW Center for Health Disparities Research and UW School of Nursing)recognized with Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Research

Malene Hansen, PhD (Buck Institute / Sanford Burnham Prebys) and Morgan Levine, PhD (Yale School of Medicine) recognized for their outstanding contributions to aging research

AFAR and the McKnight Brain Research Foundationlaunch new grant program in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss

Simone Sidoli and Oscar Vivas receive inaugural Sagol Network GerOmic Awards for Junior Faculty

2020 Press Releases

$2 Million in Grants will support Biomedical Research on Aging; Glenn Foundation for Medical Research’s investment supports Three Major Research Initiatives in partnership with AFAR for 2020

NIA awards up to $2 million to AFAR to Continue Coordinating the Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging

Long-time AFAR collaborator and support Paul F. Glenn Dies at 89, Leaves Perpetual Legacy to Foundation

Nir Barzilai, MD, publishes new book, Age Later: Healthspan, Lifespan, and the New Science of Longevity, through St. Martin's Press

James L. Kirkland, MD, PhD, and Sean Curran, PhD, to receive 2020 Irving S. Wright Award and Vincent Cristafolo Rising Star Award in Aging Research

Kali Thomas, MA, PhD, to receive inaugural Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Research

Experts: Geroscience Approach May Lessen Severity of COVID-19, Bolster Older Patients’ Response to Diseases

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