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Brandon Holmes, MD, Ph.D.
UCSF
The Link Between B-Amyloid and Tau Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease: Elucidating a Critical Role for Glypicans
Year: 2026 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
Courtney Lane-Donovan, MD, Ph.D.
UCSF
Genomic Approaches to Identify Modulators of Lysosomal Dysfunction in Brain Aging
Year: 2026 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
Emily San Diego, Ph.D.
Scripps Health
Dulce-AMART: An mHealth adaptive real-time technology integrating AI and continuous glucose monitoring for type 2 diabetes management in primary care
Year: 2026 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Start-Up
Sarah Kaufman, MD, Ph.D.
UCSF
Elucidating the role of RNA binding proteins in tau aggregation and neurotoxicity
Year: 2026 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
Ting Zhang, MD, Ph.D.
UCLA
Capturing Cross-Disease Molecular Neuropathology Signatures in Alzheimer's Disease, FTLD-Tau, and Long COVID Utilizing Singe-Cell Spatial Multi-Omics
Year: 2026 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
Tirth Patel, MD, Ph.D.
UCLA
Critical role of meningeal lymphatics in aging and neurodegeneration
Year: 2026 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
Wenfei Sun, DSc
Stanford
Neuro-Metabolic Connectome: A Circuit-Based Paradigm for Reversing Diabetic Insulin Resistance
Year: 2026 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Start-Up
William Allen, Ph.D.
Stanford
Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms of Age-Related Decline in Brain Resilience
Year: 2026 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
Jan Spaas, Ph.D.
Stanford
SLC16A13 is a pantothenate transporter linked to diabetes
Year: 2026 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Ziyi Meng, MD, Ph.D.
UCLA
Aster Mediated Sterol Flux in Liver Macrophages as a Modulator of Metabolic Liver Disease
Year: 2026 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Gregory Rosenberg, Ph.D.
UCLA
Probing the Effects of Pathological Loading of Microglia on Modulation of Neuronal Circuits
Year: 2026 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Hyehyun Kim, Ph.D.
UCSF
The Role of IFN Signaling in Hypothalamic Microglial Lipid Metabolism and Systemic Glucose Dysregulation
Year: 2026 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Yi Xiao (Sean) Jiang, Ph.D.
UCSF
Molecular mechanisms by which tau aggregation and m6A modifications drive Alzheimer's disease
Year: 2026 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Senmiao (Samuel) Sun, Ph.D.
Stanford
Mechanistic Integrations Between ApoE and SorLA in Synaptic Dysfunction and Alzheimer's Disease
Year: 2026 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Jonathan Hoang, Ph.D.
CalTech
Overcoming the AAV Blood-Islet Barrier -Rational Engineering for Systemic Diabetes Gene Therapy
Year: 2026 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Eun Sung Kang, Ph.D.
Buck Institute
Age-associated remodeling of the mitochondrial ribosome and its impact on mitochondrial translation
Year: 2026 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Christine Junhui Liu, Ph.D.
Cedars Sinai Medical Center (CSMC)
The Role of Cholecystokinin-Expressing Hypothalamic Circuits in Metabolic Regulation and Weight Gain
Year: 2026 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Christina Gangemi, Ph.D.
Stanford
Delivering trophic factors to enhance islet cell transplantation
Year: 2026 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Kristen Berendzen, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Identifying Social Behavior Trajectories to Understand Neurodegenerative Disease Outcomes
Year: 2025 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
Phillip Dumesic, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Control of Adipocyte Metabolism and Pro-Inflammatory Potential Through Privileged mRNA Translation
Year: 2025 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Start-Up
Giulia Notarangelo, PhD
Stanford
Dissecting the Impact of Respiratory Virus Infections on Brain Aging
Year: 2025 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Hyunbin Huh, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Role of Ovary-Derived Factors in Rejuvenating the Aged Brain
Year: 2025 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Mor Alkaslasi, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Transcriptional Drivers in Selective Neuronal Vulnerability to Tauopathies
Year: 2025 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Wanhua Li, PhD
Stanford University
Investigating Microglial Role in α-Synuclein Dynamics Using a Human iPSC Neural Triculture Model
Year: 2025 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Jean Paul Chadarevian, PhD
University of California, Irvine
Examining the Impact of Peripheral Monocyte-Derived Macrophage Infiltration in AD Pathogenesis
Year: 2025 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Kiet Hua, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Centrosome and Cilia Proteins in Dementia
Year: 2025 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Fnu Priyanka, B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD
University of California, San Diego
A Retrograde Nuclear Transcriptional Program Protecting Against Diabetes/ROS-Induced Mitochondrial Stress
Year: 2025 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Hyeonhui Kim, PhD
University of California, San Diego
The Role of the RalA in Regulating Adipocyte Mitochondrial Dynamics and Metabolic Capacity in Obesity
Year: 2025 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Wuling Zhong, PhD
University of California, San Diego
The Effects of Bacterial Bile Acid Modifications on Host Glucose Homeostasis
Year: 2025 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Bastien Cimarosti, PhD
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Elucidating Lifespan Cardiac Vulnerabilities Caused by Maternal Diabetes Through Single-Cell Multi-Omics
Year: 2025 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Phuong Thao Phan, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Insights into Ciliopathy-Associated Obesity: Molecular Mechanisms of Alström Syndrome
Year: 2025 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Elliott Brooks, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Elucidating the Mechanisms by Which the Transcription Factor FEV Regulates Human Endocrine Development
Year: 2025 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Martin Kampmann, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Hillblom Network for Tau Strain Mechanisms
Year: 2024 | Area: Aging | Type: Network
Koliwad, Suneil MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Targeting the Unfolded Protein Response to Halt Obesity-Associated Diabetes
Year: 2024 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Network
Nisha Sharma, PhD
Backman Research Institute of City of Hope
Role of Bile Acid enzyme CYP8B1 in Type 2 Diabetes Associated Diabetic Kidney Disease
Year: 2024 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Ghazaleh Eskandari-Sedighi, PhD
University of California, Irvine
Stem-Cell Based Approaches to Study Mechanisms of AD Resilience in Human Microglia
Year: 2024 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Tamas Nagy, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Identifying the Role of Mechanosensation in the Decline of Stem Cell Homeostasis
Year: 2024 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Seth Sharp, PhD
Stanford University
Genome-Wide Multi-Omic Characterization of Human Primary Islets to Identify Therapeutic Targets
Year: 2024 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Jinhao (Albert) Xu, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Defining the Role of Sensory Neurons in Age-Related Osteoarthritis
Year: 2024 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Ilia Droujinine, PhD
Scripps Institute
Intestine to Adipose Tissue Interorgan Communication in Diabetes
Year: 2024 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Start-Up
Hanna Martens, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
The Regulation of Immunosenescence and its Implications on Healthy Aging
Year: 2024 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
Biswarathan Ramani, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Elucidating the Role of DNAJC7 in Neuronal Protein Homeostasis and Neurodegeneration
Year: 2024 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Clare Hancock, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Sugar-Specific Appetite and its Role in Diet-Induced Obesity
Year: 2024 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Christopher Toomey MD, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Role of High-Density Lipoprotein Particles in Early Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Year: 2024 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
Yi Zeng, PhD
Stanford University
Elucidating the Role of Alternative Polyadenylation in ALS and FTD
Year: 2023 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Joseph Gleeson, MD
University of California, San Diego
Contribution of Mosaicism to Age-Related Neurological Disease
Year: 2023 | Area: Aging | Type: Network
Roarke Kamber, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Systematic Identification and Characterization of Regulators of Senescent Cell Clearance by Macrophages
Year: 2023 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
Lei Yao, PhD
Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Developing a KIBRA Therapeutic to Reverse Memory Loss in Tauopathy and Aging
Year: 2023 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Han Yang, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Discover and Characterize Genes and Variants Associated with Phagocytosis in Alzheimer's Disease
Year: 2023 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Theresa Rohm, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Anti-Diabetic Effects of Adipose Tissue Macrophage-Exosomes from Rosiglitazone-Treated Obese Mice
Year: 2023 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
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