AFAR is pleased to introduce the recipient of the 2024 Sagol Network GerOmic Award for Junior Faculty: Amy Vandiver, MD, PhD, Clinical Instructor Clinician-Investigator Track, University of California Los Angeles.
Established in 2020, the Sagol Network GerOmic Award for Junior Faculty is a one- to two-year award given to junior faculty (MDs and PhDs) to conduct aging-related Omics (GerOmics) research.
Dr. Vandiver’s funded project is titled “Mitochondrial transcripts: a novel metric of aging in RNA-sequencing data." Dr. Vandiver will evaluate a potential broadly applicable aging metric and will directly test the transcriptomic consequences of elevated mitochondrial deletion mutations. Insight into both questions has the potential to advance our understanding of the role of these changes in the biology of aging and move towards targeted interventions.
Learn more about the Sagol Network GerOmic Award for Junior Faculty here.
AFAR is grateful to the Sagol Network for their support of this grant program.
