American Federation for Aging Research

11/28/2025

A Continuation Award will bolster research by Gunjan Singh, PhD, of Brown University, on “Determining the role of Dosage Compensation Complex in regulation of sex-specific aging of brain,” funded through a prior Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship: https://www.afar.org/grantee-profiles/gunjan-singh

11/28/2025

AFAR and the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research are pleased to announce 2025 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research recipient Nalini Rao, PhD, of the Gladstone Institutes, who will research “Elucidating how aging impairs brain proteostasis and protein clearance.”
Learn more here: https://www.afar.org/grantee-profiles/nalini-rao

11/26/2025

A Continuation Award will bolster research by Lilian Silva, PhD, of Saint Louis University, on “Non-canonical roles of cGAS-STING in aging,” funded through a prior Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship: https://www.afar.org/grantee-profiles/lilian-silva

11/26/2025

AFAR and the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research are pleased to announce 2025 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research recipient Tianji Ma, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco, who will research “Homeostatic regulation of protein-specific appetite in aging.”
Learn more here: https://www.afar.org/grantee-profiles/tianji-ma

11/25/2025

This Thanksgiving, we want to extend our heartfelt gratitude for your support of AFAR. This year has been a challenging one for the scientific community, and AFAR is deeply grateful for how our community has supported us in making progress towards our vision: the ability for all of us to live healthier as we grow older.
Thank you for helping us bring this vision to life, and thank you for considering a year-end gift to AFAR this season here: https://www.afar.org/donate

11/24/2025

AFAR SuperAgers Family Study spotlighted in TIME interview with Board Member, Multiple Grantee, and Study Co-Investigator Nir Barzilai, MD.
Learn more and enroll in the SuperAgers Family Study here: https://www.superagersstudy.org/
Read “How to Die Young at a Very Old Age” here: https://time.com/7330284/aging-research-nir-barzilai-longevity/

Longevity researcher Nir Barzilai shares how interfering with aging could prevent myriad diseases.

11/24/2025

A Continuation Award will bolster research by Omer Sharon, PhD, of UC Berkeley, on “The role of sleep-dependent glymphatic brain clearance in human aging,” funded through a prior Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship: https://www.afar.org/grantee-profiles/omer-sharon

11/24/2025

AFAR and the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research are pleased to announce 2025 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research recipient Jingyun Luan, PhD, of the Biological Sciences Division at The University of Chicago, who will research “Decoding epigenetic regulation to rejuvenate aging-induced stem cell exhaustion.”
Learn more here: https://www.afar.org/grantee-profiles/jingyun-luan

11/21/2025

A Continuation Award will bolster research by Ryan Marshall, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on “Exploring mTORC1-dependent mechanisms of lipidome remodeling in aging skeletal muscle through resistance training and isoleucine restriction,” funded through a prior Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship: https://www.afar.org/grantee-profiles/ryan-marshall

11/21/2025

AFAR and the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research are pleased to announce 2025 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research recipient Airat Ibragimov, PhD, of the University of Rochester, who will research “Putting aging on pause: targeting SIRT6 and CDK9 to ameliorate age-related transcriptional dysregulation.”
Learn more here: https://www.afar.org/grantee-profiles/airat-ibragimov

11/20/2025

MSN and ZME Science recently published an article exploring exceptional animal longevity, with insights from AFAR Scientific Director Steven N. Austad, PhD, and AFAR Grantee and Upstate Nathan Shock Center Director Vera Gorbunova, PhD. Read here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/the-secret-lives-of-the-world-s-longest-living-animals-will-change-how-you-think-about-aging/ar-AA1Qau6H

11/20/2025

View from AFAR: Science and Care, Together

This week, AFAR is organizing the Clin-STAR and Beeson Annual Meetings in DC.

These meetings connect physicians and researchers who are dedicated to helping advance science and care that will help us all live healthier, longer lives.

Through both professional development and research support, the Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging (K76) and the NIH/NIA’s Clinician-Scientists Transdisciplinary Aging Research (Clin-STAR) Initiative work to advance patient-centered care for older adults and drive transformative change that leads to better health care outcomes.

Clin-STAR also plays a key role in increasing awareness across disciplines about the unique needs of older patients.

As Dr. Kristine Yaffe, Clin-STAR Co-Principal Investigator, explains in a new Ask the Expert interview with AFAR:

“Aging research is a paradigm for why we need to think of the whole person. We cannot be siloed by our specialty. By ‘geriatricizing’ other disciplines, we are facilitating needed interactions, and this will create new discoveries.”

For more insights on the importance of connecting science and care, read Dr. Yaffe’s interview here: https://www.afar.org/ask-the-expert/ask-the-expert-kristine-yaffe-md-strengthening-cross-disciplinary-collaboration-in-aging-research-through-clin-star

Learn more about Clin-STAR at: www.clin-star.org