Announcing the 2024 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research

AFAR and the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 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, 12, 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:

• 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 ‘Lindsay’ 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 A. Perets, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center: Dissecting Innate Immunity at Organelle Contact Sites in Brain Aging
• Andrea Francesca M. 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

Learn more in a related press release here.

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