The Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Aging program is designed to support established investigators working at institutions in the U.S. to conduct research in the basic biological sciences relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities. The award is intended to provide significant support to allow the development of novel, innovative research programs by investigators who are not currently conducting aging research or who wish to develop new research programs in aging. The Foundation particularly aims to stimulate new research that has rigorous scientific foundations but is not funded adequately, either because of its perceived novelty, its high risk, or because it is from an area where traditional research interests absorb most funding. Senior Scholar awards provide funding up to $150,000 per year for a four-year period.
Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Structural biology
- Molecular genetics
- Studies with model systems ranging from lower eukaryotes to humans
- Inquiries testing the relevance of simpler models to human aging
- Genetic epidemiology of aging; candidate longevity genes
- Aging in the immune system
- Host defense molecules in aging systems
- Mechanisms of free radical induced cell aging
- Mechanisms of aging in various differentiated cell populations
- Gene/environment and gene/gene interactions
- Integrative physiology
- New approaches to age-modulated disease mechanisms
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