Announcing the Second Cohort of the Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research

AFAR is pleased to announce the Second Cohort of the Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research, a grant program to enable early-career investigators with labs in the US and Canada to advance research projects in the basic biology of aging, as well as geroscience projects that translate advances in basic research on aging biology from the laboratory to the clinic, paving the way for healthspan-expanding therapeutics and treatments.

$6,750,000 will support eighteen investigators who have been selected to receive this three-year award of $375,000 (total):

• Kevin Beier, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
  Do aging-related neuropathologies spread through neuronal synapses?
• Alexander Bick, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  Identifying clonal hematopoiesis resiliency mechanisms
• Caitlin Davis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Yale University
  Spatiotemporal Rewiring of Lipid Metabolism in Aging Tissues
• Jason DeFreitas, PhD, Professor of Exercise Science, Syracuse University
  Mechanisms of Degradation across the Lifespan: The Role of Descending Tract Function on Age-Related Sensory-Motor Deficits
• Luke Evans, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Gene-Gene Interaction Associations with Frailty to Identify Core Genes of Aging and their Biological Context
• Bhanu Ganesh, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston
  Aging Together: The Role of The Gut Microbiota and Its Influence on Host Immunity
• Jonathan Gootenberg, PhD, McGovern Fellow and Principal Investigator, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
  Discovery and manipulation of transcription factors stem cell rejuvenation in aged bone-marrow
• Sung Min Han, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Florida
  Exploring the Systemic Regulation of Organismal Longevity and Health through Individual Neuron Mitochondrial Stress
• Dan Jane-wit, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine
  Complement Protein Aggregates in Age-Related Amyloidosis
• Janine Kwapis, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biology and Paul Berg Early Career Chair in the Biological Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
  Reversing an epigenetic mechanism that limits memory flexibility in old age
• Sreemathi Logan, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
  Delineating senescence in the context of brain-adipose axis in aging
• Payel Sen, PhD, Stadtman tenure-track investigator, National Institute on Aging, NIH
  Targeting epigenetic mechanisms in progenitor cells for functional rejuvenation of whole organs
• Simone Sidoli, PhD, Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  The role of histone succinylation in exceptional longevity defined using single cell resolution
• Rebecca Voorhees, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar; Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology
  Inhibition of MTCH2 as a novel modality for aging therapy
• Siyuan Wang, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University
  Developing a high-content spatial transcriptomic screen method to discover novel regulators of cell-cell interaction in the native senescent microenvironment

• Reyhan Westbrook, PhD, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
  Leveraging Kynurenine Pathway Manipulation to Improve Metabolic Dysfunction and Extend Healthspan in Mice
• Maxwell Wilson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Quantitative and Systems Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Unraveling Aging Mysteries through Optogenetic Dissection of ISR Dysregulation
• Bokai Zhu, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
  Rejuvenation of nuclear speckles to delay aging
  

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Learn more about the Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience program here.