Announcing 2024 AFAR Grants for Junior Faculty Recipients

AFAR is pleased to announce the seven recipients of the 2024 AFAR Grants for Junior Faculty.

This grant provides an early career investigator with up to $150,000 for one to two years to support research focused on aging processes and age-related diseases. Selected through a rigorous review process, this year’s recipients are exploring a range of topics at prominent research institutions nationwide:

• 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, 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 E. Ringel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ragon Institute of Mass General MIT and Harvard: Targeting T Cell Dysfunction to Delay Tissue Aging
• Carlos Giovanni Silva-García, 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

*Underwritten fully by the WoodNext Foundation, a component fund administered by Greater Houston Community Foundation

**Underwritten fully by the Hearst Foundations

Other funders of the AFAR Grants for Junior Faculty include AFAR Board of Directors, Anonymous, Diane Nixon, Diana Jacobs Kalman, Rose M. Badgeley Charitable Trust, The Irene Diamond Fund, The Lowell F. Johnson Foundation, The Irving S. Wright Endowment

Learn more about the AFAR Grants for Junior Faculty program here.