GLENN FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN AGING RESEARCH

Turan Aghayev, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California San Francisco: Role of an exercise liver-to-brain rejuvenation axis in restoring regenerative and cognitive function in aging

Zhongchi Li, Ph.D.
Weill Cornell Medicine: Investigating the role of propionate metabolism in aging

Ting Miao, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School: The pathophysiological role of gut microbiota-derived acetate under aging

Daniel Robinson, Ph.D.
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, Ph.D.
Northwestern University: Molecular Basis of Metformin Action in Treating Age-Related Disease

Gunjan Singh, Ph.D.
Brown University: Determining the role of Dosage Compensation Complex in regulation of sex-specific aging of brain

Lichao Wang, Ph.D.
The University of Connecticut Health Center: Gut microbiome changes associated with p21high cell clearance in aging

Jiping Yang, Ph.D.
Columbia University Medical Center: Identification and characterization of functional non-coding variants associated with human longevity

Hanlin Zhang, Ph.D.
University of California Berkeley: Remodeling of the extracellular matrix promotes longevity via mitochondrial signaling

Sen Zhang, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago: Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Aging by the Bone Marrow Niche

Matthew Bubak, Ph.D.
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: Restoring the ability of aged muscle to adapt to aerobic exercise with heterochronic plasma transfer

Chatrawee Duangjan, Ph.D.
University of Southern California: DCAF11/WDR23-dependent proteostasis mediates glucose and lipid handling

Silvana Duran-Ortiz, Ph.D.
Ohio University: Determining the healthspan and senescent cell and DNA damage response status in long-lived mice with germline and adult-onset growth hormone receptor disruption

Yasar Arfat Kasu, Ph.D.
University of California San Diego: Changes in ribosomal activity and proteostasis in hematopoietic stem cell aging

Ekaterina Korotkevich, Ph.D.
University of California San Francisco: Identification of pathways connecting age-associated accumulation of mtDNA mutations with aging phenotypes

Daniel Levine, Ph.D.
University of California San Francisco: Interrogating the Role of Epigenetic Signaling to PER2 in Healthful Adaptation to Calorie Restriction

Heidi Pak, Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwestern: Identification of Feeding Entrainment Mechanisms in a Calorie Restricted Diet

Ines Sturmlechner, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic: Determinants regulating memory cell longevity and function in older adults

Binsheng Wang, M.D.
University of Connecticut Health Center: Targeting p21Cip1-highly-expressing Cells to Improve Lifespan and Healthspan in Naturally Aged Mice

Yann Cormerais, Ph.D.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: Genetic dissection of the insulin/IGF1-mTOR pathway in mammalian aging

Madison Doolittle, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic: Investigation of osteo-lineage cells as primary mediators of senescence in the bone microenvironment

Sooyeon Lee, Ph.D.
Stanford University: The pathophysiological role of Succinate dehydrogenase deficiency in β-cell aging and diabetes

Claire Leveau, Ph.D.
Yale University: Impact of Catechol-O-methyltransferase in the neuro-immune regulation of metabolic disorders

Yuancheng Lu, Ph.D.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT: A genomic search of novel rejuvenation cocktails

Pradeep Ramalingam, M.D., Ph.D.
Hackensack University Medical College: Rejuvenation of aged hematopoietic stem cells by suppression of bone marrow inflammaging

Anand Saran, Ph.D.
University of California San Diego: Using Engineered Native Bacteria To Understand The Relationship Between Altered Microbial Functional Dynamics and Age-Related Circadian Dysmetabolism

Tina Sing, Ph.D.
University of California Berkeley: Leveraging gametogenesis-specific rejuvenation pathways to counteract cellular aging

Yuting Tan, M.D. Ph.D.
Stanford University: De-aging the brain by reversing the immuno-metabolism of myeloid cells

Lei Zhang, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota: Targeting cellular senescence with novel senotherapeutics by design to extend healthspan

Zeda Zhang, Ph.D.
Sloan Kettering Institute: Identifying targets for senolytic therapies from the cell surface proteome of senescent cells

Wei-Wen Chen, Ph.D.
Georgia Institute of Technology: Investigating the connection between fat metabolism and aging process with broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (BCARS) imaging

Cara Green, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison: Genes and genetic variants that determine the metabolic response to dietary protein

Johanna Heid, Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Single-cell triple omics analysis of the aging genome, epigenome and transcriptome

Seokjo Kang, Ph.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: The Role of CCL11 in Aging-Associated Microglial Reactivity

Dunja Mrdjen, Ph.D./MsC
Stanford University: The cellular landscape of brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease through multiplexed ion beam imaging

Cana Park, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco: Mechanisms of klotho and platelet activation to counter cognitive aging

Koning Shen, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley: The role of lysosomal to mitochondrial communication in health and aging

Ruth Singer, Ph.D.
The Rockefeller University: Shedding light on the role of RNA binding protein-mediated RNA regulation in synaptic plasticity and aging

Matthew Tierney, Ph.D.
The Rockefeller University: Interrogating the functional role of aged stem cell niche interactions in the hair follicle

Kyohei Tokizane, Ph.D.
Washington University: Investigating the role of dorsomedial hypothalamus in mammalian aging

Laura Bott, Ph.D.
Northwestern University: Elucidating intra- and inter-individual variability in proteostasis network capacity during aging

Nirmalya Dasgupta, Ph.D.
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute: A role for histone chaperone HIRA in cytoplasmic DNA sensing and senescence-associated inflammatory signaling

Yoko Henderson, Ph.D.
Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute: Determining the effects of late-life initiated caloric restriction on aging-related cognitive decline, frailty, and H2S production

Ryo Higuchi-Sanabria, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley: More than just a load control: cytoskeletal form and function during aging

Li Li, M.D./Ph.D.
Stanford University: A mitochondrial membrane-spanning ternary complex is a drug target for aging and Parkinson’s disease

Elise Marsan, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco: Glial dysfunctions in brain aging and neurodegenerative diseases

Mikolaj Ogrodnik, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic: Targeting lipid metabolism to reduce pro-inflammatory phenotype and viability of senescent cells

Seungjin Ryu, Ph.D.
Yale University: The role of a matricellular adipokine in aging by integration of immune-metabolic response

Kevin Stein, Ph.D.
Stanford University: Defining the role of co-transitional proteostasis in aging and age-related pathologies

Matthew Ulgherait, Ph.D.
Columbia University: Engineering the microbiome to ameliorate age-related intestinal diseases and extend lifespan in Drosophila

Joel Blanchard, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Understanding Myelin Degeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease and Aging

Jorge Castillo-Quan, M.D./Ph.D.
Harvard University: Elucidating pathways by which lipid signals modulate longevity, redox metabolism and proteostasis

Ukrae Cho, Ph.D.
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies: Linking long-lived protein maintenance, nuclear protein homeostasis, and brain aging

Ching-Chieh Chou, Ph.D.
Stanford University: Systematic dissection of the protein homeostasis network affected by aging and neurodegenerative diseases using human neuronal models

Susan Eliazer, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco: Wnt4 as a novel therapeutic for rejuvenating muscle stem cell function during aging

Karl Miller, Ph.D.
Sanford-Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute: Mitochondrial retrograde signaling as a therapeutic target for senescence-associated inflammation

Sharon Owino, Ph.D./MSCR
Emory University: The role of GPR37 in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis

Jyung Mean Son, Ph.D.
University of Southern California: Nuclear gene regulation by the mitochondrial-encoded peptide MOTS-c during aging

Kristoffer Svensson, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego: Protein acetylation and age-related skeletal muscle contractile dysfunction

Stephen Treaster, Ph.D.
Boston Children’s Hospital: Leveraging natural experiments in aging through broad phylogenetic analysis of genomic variation

Sean James Miller, Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine: Investigating the effects of Norrin on the blood-brain-barrier

Mohammad Parvez Alam, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School: Orally bioavailable nicotinic acid riboside multimers to slow the effects of aging by design

Lear Brace, Ph.D.
Buck Institute for Research on Aging: Mechanisms of sexual dimorphism and mTORC1 effectors in type II diabetes and aging

Leah Cuddy, Ph.D.
Northwestern University: Mechanisms of a novel angiotensin converting enzyme 1 mutation in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis

Neil Dani, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School: Activity-dependent clearance of cerebrospinal fluid in the aging brain

Mladen Jergovic, Ph.D.
University of Arizona: Administration of cytokines and pattern recognition to improve the aged immune response

Min-Dian Li, Ph.D.
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health: Targeting fatty acid binding protein aP2 to prevent age-associated metabolic decline

James Markworth, Ph.D.
Purdue: Aging and the resolution of skeletal muscle inflammation

Aya Namba, M.D.
University of Michigan: Sex-Steroids in Aging Women: the Role of the Adrenal Gland

Nathalie Saurat, Ph.D.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Identifying novel strategies to induce age-associated damage in human pluripotent stem cell models of Alzheimer’s disease

Huiliang Zhang, Ph.D.
University of Washington: SS-31 reversal of mitochondrial dysfunction in the aging heart

Jenna Bartley, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut: Prevention of Age-associated Influenza-induced Inflammation, Muscle Atrophy and Disability

John Collins, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: SIRT6 as a novel therapeutic target in aging and osteoarthritis

Evgeni Frenkel, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Tracking the dynamics and selective autophagy to elucidate its role in cell-intrinsic aging

Jessica Hoffman, Ph.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham: The metabolomic consequences of size and age in the domestic dog: a new model of human morbidity and mortality

Liam Hunt, Ph.D.
St Jude Children’s Research Hospital: Global analysis of ubiquitin ligases that control muscle growth and sarcopenia

Timothy Jarome, Ph.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham: The role of DNA hydroxymethylation in age-related memory decline induced by early life stress

Jamie Justice, Ph.D.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine: Relation of senescent cell burden to physical and metabolic function in human aging

Su Jeong Kim, Ph.D.
University of Southern California: Investigating the senolytic function of mitochondrial peptides

Marissa Schafer, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic: Targeting cellular senescence to attenuate pulmonary fibrosis

Xiaoai Zhao, M.D/Ph.D.
Stanford University: Fat metabolism regulation in neural stem cell aging and rejuvenation

Dov Ballak, Ph.D.
University of Colorado at Boulder: Interleukin-37 as a Novel Treatment for Inflamm-aging

Marco De Cecco, Ph.D.
Brown University: Activation of retrotransposable elements in cellular senescence: new therapeutic targets to prevent cell-intrinsic initiation of autoimmunity

Hongqing Du, Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine: Developing Novel Approaches to Extend Muscle Healthspan

Neha Garg, Ph.D.
Harvard: The role of the relocation of chromatin modifying proteins in aging

David Gate, Ph.D.
Stanford University: Role of microglia in brain rejuvenation

Emily Goldberg, Ph.D.
Yale University: Impact of ketone metabolites on age-related inflammation

Woojin Han, M.S.E/Ph.D.
Georgia Tech Research Corporation: Hydrogels for Skeletal Muscle Regeneration in Young and Aging Mice

Jerome Mertens, Ph.D.
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies: Using human, age-equivalent directly induced neurons to study nucleo-cytoplasmic compartmentalization in human aging and Alzheimer’s disease

Reyhan Westbrook, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University: The Identification and Translation of Novel Metabolic Findings in the Aging Chronically Inflammed Interleukin-10tm1Cgn Mouse

Lynda Wilmott, Ph.D.
University of Tennessee Health Science Center: Novel drug discovery method identifies KCNH3 as an Alzheimer’s Disease therapeutic target

Andrew Arrant, Ph.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham: Molecular Mechanisms of Aging-Related Neuronal Dysfunction in Progranulin-Deficient Mice

Tracy Brennan, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: Intrinsic cellular and microenvironmental effects of aging on MSC engraftment: Implications for transplantation as a therapeutic modality

Tyesha Burks, Ph.D.
Bowie State University: Long-term administration of losartan ameliorates pathologies associated with sarcopenia

Damien Callahan, Ph.D.
University of Vermont: Acute Disuse Muscle Atrophy: Investigating Mechanisms and Countermeasures in Older Adults

Ying Ann Chiao, Ph.D.
University of Washington: Interventions to reverse cardiac aging

Simon Johnson, Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Functional Characterization of Human Longevity-Associated IGF1R Variants in a Mouse Model

Chen-Yu Liao, Ph.D.
Buck Institute for Research on Aging: Autophagy in Cardiac Function and Aging

Christopher Martens, Ph.D.
University of Colorado at Boulder: Nicotinamide Riboside Supplementation for Improving Physiological Function in Older Adults

Hyejung Won, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles: Chromosomal disorganization in Down syndrome and its implication in aging

Ming Xu, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic: The role of cellular senescence in age-related tissue dysfunction and diseases

Paul Allen, Ph.D.
Research Associate, University of Rochester: Aging-related Neural Desynchronization in the Auditory Brainstem

Johannes Bauer, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Connecticut Health Center: The Role of p53 in Life Span Extension

Robert Dekroon, Ph.D.
Fellow, Duke University Medical Center: The Role of Intracellular Pathways Mediated by Lipoproteins in the Regulation of Apoptosis

Rugang Zhang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Fox Chase Cancer Center: Molecular Basis of Cellular Senescence

Arjumand Ghazi, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco: Role of the Somatic Gonad in the Regulation of Caenorhabditis elegans Aging

David W. Killilea, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute: Cellular Aging Alters Intracellular Iron Homeostasis

Gawain McColl, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Buck Institute for Age Research: The Role of KU70 in Stress Resistance and Aging

Andrej Podlutsky, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, University of Idaho: Stress Tolerance and Bat Aging

Adam Gazzaley, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley: Neural Mechanisms of Memory Function in Normal Aging

Dejan Milatovic, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, Vanderbilt University: Cerebral Oxidative Damage in the Models of Advanced Age, Inflammation and Excitotoxicity

Anne Simon, Ph.D.
Fellow, California Institute of Technology: Study of Long-Lived Mutants of the Ecdysone Receptor

Meng-Ping Tu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University: Yeast Restriction in Juvenile State Extends Adult Lifespan in Drosophila Melanogaster

Debdutta Bandyopadhay, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Baylor College of Medicine: Role of Histone Deacetylation in Melanocytes Senescence

Kathy Barsz, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester Medical Center: The Effect of Aging on Physiological Correlates of Masked Intensity Judgements

Nilufer Ertekin-Taner, M.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville: Identification of the Novel Late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease Gene on Chromosome 10 Using Plasma Amyloid Beta Levels as a Surrogate Genetic Marker

Faith Gunning-Dixon, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: The Neural Basis of Age-related Declines in Episodic Memory

Kimmo Hatanpaa, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Fellow, Johns Hopkins University: Catabolism of Alzheimer Amyloid Beta-protein

Shunai Jiang, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University: Fas Ligand and Fas in Aging

Pankaj Kapahi, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology: Isolation and Characterization of Genes that Extend Lifespan and Prevent Neurodegeneration Using Drosophila Melanogaster as a Model System

Plamen Penev, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Chicago: Poor Sleep Quality and Testosterone Decline in Older Men

Claus Pietrzik, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego: Role of the LRP in Cytoplasmic Domain in APP Processing

Leanne Rae Stewart, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Washington University School of Medicine: The Involvement of Mutant PrP Accumulation and Apoptosis in Neurodegeneration in Tg(PG14) Mice