Werner Syndrome (WS) is a rare human genetic disease with many features of premature aging. The patients usually appear normal during their teenage years. But later they prematurely develop several age-related diseases, including artherosclerosis, osteoporosis, diabetes, malignant neoplasm and cataracts. They also exhibit an aged appearance when...
Senior and New Scholars Awards for National Institutes of Health
Dr. Weidong Wang
National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
1999 new Scholar Award in aging
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Dr. Toren Finkel
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
2006 senior Scholar Award in aging
The discovery of genes that positively or negatively affect how long an organism lives has been a tremendous advance in the science of aging. While numerous genes have been isolated that affect the longevity of organisms like worms and flies, to date, there have been relatively few genes that definitively regulate mammalian lifespan. For those...
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Dr. Kyung-Tai Min
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
2001 new Scholar Award in aging
Aging is a common phenomenon shared by animals and plants, but our
understanding of why and how we age remains limited. It would be of great
biological interest and practical importance if we could gain insights into the
molecular basis of aging, learn to delay the aging process, and maintain the vigor
of youth.
Model organisms amenable to... |
Dr. Charles Mobbs
National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
2005 senior Scholar Award in aging
Life-long dietary restriction can delay age-related impairments and extend lifespan. However, life-long dietary restriction itself would not be a practical intervention in humans. Therefore many investigators are studying the mechanism by which dietary restriction produces its beneficial effects, with the goal of activating these mechanisms... |
Dr. Catherine A. Wolkow
National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
2004 new Scholar Award in aging
One strategy for moderating detrimental effects of aging is to commandeer hormonal pathways that coordinate aging in different tissues. The first obstacle to this goal is identifying such "longevity hormones". Among the many remarkable discoveries from the roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans, is the fact that disrupting an... |
Non-Scholar Awards for National Institutes of Health
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2003 Training Scholar Award in Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation has pledged up to $1,000,000 over 5 years to help support the Fogarty-Ellison International Clinical Research Training Program for U.S. and Developing Country Students of the Health Sciences. The training program will provide early career opportunities for U.S. medical or nursing students, or other graduate students...
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2002 Training Scholar Award in Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation has awarded $25,000 to help support a leadership and
management training workshop for African scientists who are directors or potential directors of African research institutes conducting research on malaria. This program was developed under the auspices of the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria. This... |
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2001 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation contributed $2,500 to help support the Symposium on Endocrinology of Life-span Extension held June 19, 2001 at the Annual Endocrine Society Meeting in Denver, CO. |
2001 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation contributed $2,500 to help support the Symposium on Endocrinology of Life-span Extension held June 19, 2001 at the Annual Endocrine Society Meeting in Denver, CO. |
Funded Institutions
The Ellison Medical Foundation fosters research by means of grants-in-aid on behalf of investigators to universities and laboratories within the United States. Institutions receiving awards must be tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations or U.S. colleges or universities.
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