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

AFAR and the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research are pleased to announce the 14 recipients of the 2023 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and 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:

• 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

Learn more about this year’s junior faculty grant recipients in a related press release here.

Learn more about the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Research Grants for Junior Faculty grant program here.