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

AFAR and the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research. This program supports postdoctoral fellows who study basic research mechanisms of aging and/or translational findings that have potential to directly benefit human health.

Selected through a rigorous review process, ten, one-year, $75,000 Postdoctoral Fellowships have been awarded this year to advance research on a range of topics in the biology of aging and geroscience:

• Turan Aghayev, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF: Role of an exercise liver-to-brain rejuvenation axis in restoring regenerative and cognitive function in aging
• Zhongchi Li, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Weill Cornell Medicine: Investigating the role of propionate metabolism in aging
• Ting Miao, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School Department of Genetics: The pathophysiological role of gut microbiota-derived acetate under aging
• Daniel Robinson, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University: Identifying the upstream regulators of the gerozyme 15-PGDH to mitigate its overexpression in aging and maintain tissue homeostasis and health
• Zachary Sebo, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University: Molecular Basis of Metformin Action in Treating Age-Related Disease
• Gunjan Singh, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University: Determining the role of Dosage Compensation Complex in regulation of sex-specific aging of brain
• Lichao Wang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Connecticut Health Center: Gut microbiome changes associated with p21high cell clearance in aging
• Jiping Yang, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University Medical Center: Identification and characterization of functional non-coding variants associated with human longevity
• Hanlin Zhang, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California Berkeley: Remodeling of the extracellular matrix promotes longevity via mitochondrial signaling
• Sen Zhang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Chicago: Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Aging by the Bone Marrow Niche

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

Learn more about the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research here.