For more than four decades, AFAR has served as the field’s talent incubator, providing $212,500,000 to 4,460 investigators at premier research institutions to date—and growing.

In 2024, AFAR expects to provide approximately $12,270,00 to 60 investigators.

This September, AFAR is pleased to announce the 2024 recipients of several of our grant programs.

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Priya Balasubramanian, BVSc, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Deconstructing adipocyte heterogeneity and its impact on calorie restriction mediated anti-aging benefits

Lacy Barton, PhD
Assistant Professor tenure track, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Elucidating the impact of parental age on embryonic germline development


Yang Lyu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
Motivation Reward and Longevity as Influenced by Serotonin Dopamine and Metabolism


Jonathan Nelson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
Understanding how ribosomal DNA maintenance sustains cellular longevity


Alison Ringel, PhD
Core Member (Ragon Institute); Assistant Professor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ragon Institute of Mass General MIT and Harvard
Targeting T Cell Dysfunction to Delay Tissue Aging


Carlos Giovanni Silva-Garcia, PhD
Assistant Professor, Brown University
Neuronal regulation of histone acetylation promotes longevity


Daniel Tyrrell, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Understanding Gzmk+ CD8+ T Cell Development and Activity in Aging


Aidan Gilchrist, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of California Davis
Microenvironmental regulation of metabolism in hematopoietic stem cell aging


Longhua Guo, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of extreme longevity and global tissue rejuvenation


Changyang Linghu, PhD, MSBE
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Spatiotemporally scalable recording of single-cell gene expression histories across aging brain


Ayshwarya Subramanian, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Comparative analysis of TREM2high macrophage niches across adult tissues in aging

Jeffrey Friedman, MD, PhD
Professor, The Rockefeller University
Cellular and Molecular Basis for Hypothalamus Aging


Myriam Heiman, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience, MIT
Charting the Cellular Rejuvenation Landscape in Aging Neurons

Amanat Ali, Pharm-D, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Identification and Characterization of Functional Coding Variants in human longevity pathways


Lena Batoon, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mayo Clinic
Role of bone marrow macrophage iron accumulation in inflammaging


Walker Hoolehan, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Identifying single-molecule epigenetic modification patterns regulating age-associated neuroinflammatory gene expression programs


Xiaolin Huang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Berkeley
The role of diminished dopamine levels on age-related sleep disturbances


Ryan Marshall, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Investigating Age- and Sex-Specific Proteostatic Responses in Skeletal Muscle to Isoleucine Restriction and Weight-Pulling Exercise

Ethan Perets, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dissecting Innate Immunity at Organelle Contact Sites in Brain Aging


Andrea Francesca Salvador, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Characteristics causes and consequences of interoceptive dysfunction in aging


Omer Sharon, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Berkeley
The role of sleep-dependent glymphatic brain clearance in human aging


Lilian Silva, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Saint Louis University
New roles of nuclear STING in aging


Hongyang Xu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Role of iPLA2 on store operated Ca2+ entry (SOCE) and muscle force generation during aging


Yanxin Xu, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital
How does metformin block chronic inflammation in senescence and aging


Yifei Zhou, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
A non-canonical role of nucleoporins in bridging energy sensing and aging

Amy Vandiver, MD, PhD
Clinical Instructor Clinician-Investigator Track University of California Los Angeles
Chimeric mitochondrial transcripts: a novel metric of aging in RNA-sequencing data

Look for announcements on the awardees of each of these grant programs across the next few months and stay tuned for announcements of more grant programs in late 2024-early 2025.

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