AFAR and the McKnight Brain Research Foundation (MBRF) are pleased to announce the inaugural 2021 recipients of The McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss: Lindsay De Biase, PhD, and Saul Villeda, PhD.
Dr. De Biase is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles. She will use her grant to investigate the possibility that microglia shape synapse health during aging via modification of the extracellular matrix (ECM).
Dr. Villeda is an Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, at the University of California San Francisco. He will use his grant to investigate the rejuvenating potential of caloric restriction-induced blood factors on the aged brain at the cellular, molecular, and cognitive level.
This grant is supported by a $4.5 million grant from the McKnight Brain Research Foundation and will support six investigators over a period of five years with the goal to build a cadre of outstanding research scientists across the United States to lead transformative research in the field of cognitive aging.
Learn more about the research that Dr. De Biase and Dr. Villeda will pursue with this award here.
Read our Grantee Spotlight Interviews with the recipients here.
Learn more about this grant program here.
Read a related press release here.
