Our research has focused on the long range remodeling of DNA as it undergoes replication, recombination, and repair. Such topics remain one of the most difficult areas to study using standard molecular tools but can be approached by direct electron microscopic (EM) visualization. Telomeres are believed to represent a molecular clock that regulates...
Senior and New Scholars Awards for University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Dr. Jack D. Griffith
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
2000 senior Scholar Award in aging
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Dr. Arjun Deb
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
2008 new Scholar Award in aging
Cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of death in an aging population. Cardiac aging is predominantly characterized by hypertrophy and fibrosis, but the molecular mechanisms underlying cardiac aging are unknown. The aging heart is stiff, possesses less contractile power and is more susceptible to ischemia and hypertension that often...
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Dr. Eleni Tzima
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
2007 new Scholar Award in aging
Aging is the single largest risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, which are the leading cause of death of individuals over the age of 65 years. Atherosclerosis is so common in older persons (at least one out of two persons over sixty five years of age has atherosclerosis) and it is thought that the vascular aging process and the...
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Dr. Jeff J. Sekelsky
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
2000 new Scholar Award in aging
Genome instability has long been proposed to be a major factor in the aging process. The contribution of genome instability to aging is underscored by the finding that several of the segmental progeroid syndromes, which are characterized by early onset of conditions normally associated with aging, are associated with genome instability. Two... |
Dr. Shawn Cameron Ahmed
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
2003 new Scholar Award in aging
Germ cells can be passed from one generation to the next, indefinitely. Therefore, the germline has the potential to proliferate indefinitely and is an immortal cell lineage. In contrast, somatic cells are only needed for a single generation, and biological theory predicts that the germline may have unique properties that enable it to achieve... |
Dr. Norman Sharpless
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
2005 new Scholar Award in aging
Expression of the tumor suppressor, p16INK4a, increases with age. While this protein prevents cancer in many tissues by inducing senescence, p16INK4a appears also to contribute to aging. To elucidate the links between aging and senescence, we will evaluate p16INK4a expression in hematopoetic tissues from old and...
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Non-Scholar Awards for University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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2011 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation has awarded $3,000 to support a Workshop on "Genetic mechanisms of aging and genome maintenance" held 6/28/11 to 7/1/11 in Girdwood, Alaska. For further information, please contact jdg@med.unc.edu.
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2005 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $8,100 to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to support the session on Genomic Stability and Dynamics at the XXII International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology, held August 7-12, 2005 in Bratislave, Slovokia. The conference organizers are Jack Griffith, Ph.D. from The...
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2001 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the Cell and Molecular Biology graduate student training program symposium on Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Senescence held on May 4-6, 2001.
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Funded Institutions
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