Telomeric tracts shorten upon each cell division and critically short telomeres eventually trigger cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. Therefore, telomere length limits how many times human somatic cells can replicate and determines the lifespan of tissues. One way to circumvent aging in tissues is the activation of a specialized reverse...
Senior and New Scholars Awards for University of California - Berkeley
Dr. Ahmet Yildiz
University of California - Berkeley
2009 new Scholar Award in aging
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Dr. Michael Shapira
University of California - Berkeley
2008 new Scholar Award in aging
Increased susceptibility to infectious diseases is one of the main problems associated with old age. Underlying this susceptibility are diverse age-related changes in the immune system, including reduced repertoire of white blood cells, impaired antibody responses and enhanced proinflammatory responses. The complexity of the emerging picture... |
Dr. Qing Zhong
University of California - Berkeley
2007 new Scholar Award in aging
Aging is characterized by a progressive deterioration of tissues and organs that is in part caused by the accumulation of damaged proteins and organelles with age. Recent studies suggest that excess or defective organelles and cytoplasmic components are recycled through the autophagy-lysosome system. During autophagy, organelles and... |
Dr. Andrew E. Wurmser
University of California - Berkeley
2006 new Scholar Award in aging
Adult neural stem cells are brain-specific somatic stem cells that localize to interfaces with the vasculature within proliferative clusters comprised of neuronal, glial, endothelial and smooth muscle cells. This concentration of newly-formed cells and vascular structures define the extracellular environment or "niche" of the neural stem cell....
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Dr. Irina M. Conboy
University of California - Berkeley
2005 new Scholar Award in aging
One of the traits of aging is a decline in the ability of organ stem cells to repair damaged, differentiated tissues. Adult skeletal muscle is a perfect example of a tissue that robustly regenerates throughout adult life but fails to do so in old age. The reason for this decline in the tissue regenerative potential is not completely understood...
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Dr. Rachel Brem
University of California - Berkeley
2008 new Scholar Award in aging
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's diseases are caused by mutant forms of proteins prone to clumping, or aggregation. These diseases are strongly age-associated, suggesting that protein aggregates or the inability to resolve them may worsen with age. Even in cells that do not carry disease mutations, routine environmental changes can...
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Dr. Daniel A. Portnoy
University of California - Berkeley
2004 senior Scholar Award in gid
The global burden of disease caused by intracellular pathogens is one of the largest challenges facing the international biomedical community. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, for example, infects about one-third of the world’s population resulting in approximately 2 million deaths each year. Intracellular pathogens pose a... |
Dr. Lee W. Riley
University of California - Berkeley
2002 senior Scholar Award in gid
After AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) is the most common infectious cause of death in adults worldwide. One-third of the world’s population is infected with the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis that causes TB. One can develop TB shortly after an infection, but most new TB cases in the world arise from those who are chronically infected with... |
Non-Scholar Awards for University of California - Berkeley
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2002 Infrastructure Scholar Award in Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation has pledged support of up to $750,000 over a period of
three years to support the Development of a Mouse Model for Dengue Virus Infection and Disease to elucidate the molecular mechanism of this disease, to better characterize the immune response, and to serve for pre-clinical vaccine testing and... |
2004 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $7,500 to support a session on Persistent Infections held at the Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Toxins and Pathogenesis July 18-23, 2004 in Andover, New Hampshire.
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2003 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support a short course on Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis held at the Workshop on HIV-AIDS at the Universityís Berkeley Campus South African Centre in Cape Town, South Africa on December 1-5, 2003.
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Funded Institutions
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