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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
Ling Fu, MD, PhD
City of Hope National Medical Center
Dysregulated Uridine Homeostasis Stimulates Hepatic Glucose Production in Obesity and Associated Type 2 Diabetes
Year: 2023 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Hiroshi Ebata, PhD
Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Secretion of Autophagyrelated Factors: Role in Inter-Tissue Communication and Aging
Year: 2023 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Coralie Alexandre, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
New Molecular and Cellular Aspects of the Regulation of Energy Homeostasis by the Leptin-Melanocortin Pathway
Year: 2023 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Parminder Singh, PhD
Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Investigating the Interplay Among Cellular Senescence, Insulin Resistance, and Glycation Stress
Year: 2023 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Karina Cunha e Rocha, PhD
University of California, San Diego
The Role of Adipose Tissue Macrophages-Derived miR-690 on Adipocyte Precursor Cell Maintenance and Adipogenesis
Year: 2023 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Chuankai Zhou, PhD
Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Dissect the Effects of Long-Term Environmental Stresses on Cellular Physiology and Aging
Year: 2023 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
Andy Tsai, PhD
Stanford University
The Role of an AD Protective- and Longevity-Associated Variant of PLCG2 in Brain Aging
Year: 2023 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Isha Jain, PhD
The J. David Gladstone Institutes
High Altitude-Inspired Therapies for Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes
Year: 2023 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Start-Up
Zoe Quandt, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Mechanisms of Autoimmune Diabetes Provoked by Cancer Immunotherapy
Year: 2022 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Start-Up
Kimberly Lewis, PhD
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Integrating the Metabolome with the Transcriptome and miRNAome in Underactive Adults at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes
Year: 2022 | Area: Diabetes | Type: Fellowship
Xuchen Zhang, PhD
Stanford University
Rejuvenating the Aging Brain - Genetic Dissection of Synaptic Adhesion Molecules on Promoting Synapse Formation
Year: 2022 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Xin Jin, PhD
Scripps Institute
Epigenetic Mechanisms of Brain Aging
Year: 2022 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
Sarah Kaufman, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Elucidating the Role of Oxidative Stress and pATM Signaling in Aging and Dementia
Year: 2022 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Ryo Higuchi-Sanabria, PhD
University of Southern California (USC)
Actin-Mitochondria Interactions During Stress and Aging
Year: 2022 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
Katlin Silm, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC)
Role of Cysteine String Protein in Dopamine Neuron Function and Vulnerability to Degeneration
Year: 2022 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
Fleur Ferguson, PhD
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Chemical Tools for Deciphering Parkinson's Disease Signaling
Year: 2022 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
Finn Wolfreys, PhD
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Screening and Characterization of Protein Folding Correctors for Non-Surgical Treatment of Corneal Endothelial Dystrophy
Year: 2022 | Area: Aging | Type: Fellowship
Claire Clelland, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Using Genetics, CRISPR and Patient iPSC to Model C9orf72 FTD/ALS
Year: 2022 | Area: Aging | Type: Start-Up
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