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Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Continuation Awards

The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research (GFMR), in partnership with the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), is pleased to announce renewal of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Continuation Awards for previous or current GFMR fellows whose research is deemed highly promising and who would benefit from an additional year of funding. Up to twelve one-year fellowships of $80,000 will be available in 2026.

Application Information

These grants are administered by AFAR. For more information about the program, eligibility and application procedures, please visit AFAR.

2025 Recipients

2025
Amanat Ali, PharmD, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Identification and Characterization of Functional Coding Variants in Human Longevity Pathways

Walker Hoolehan, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: Identifying single-molecule epigenetic modification patterns regulating age-associated neuroinflammatory gene expression programs

Sooyeon Lee, PhD, Instructor, Stanford University: The pathophysiological role of Succinate Dehydrogenase deficiency in β-cell aging and diabetes

Ryan Marshall, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Exploring mTORC1-dependent mechanisms of lipidome remodeling in aging skeletal muscle through resistance training and isoleucine restriction

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: Non-canonical roles of cGAS-STING in aging

Gunjan Singh, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University: Determining the role of Dosage Compensation Complex in regulation of sex-specific aging of brain

Yuting Tan, PhD, Instructor, Stanford University: Targeting glycosylation defects to restore efferocytosis and reverse 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

Jiping Yang, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Medical Center: Centenarian regulatory variants-guided discovery of therapeutic targets for healthy aging