Sentences with phrase «for aging research»

Researchers from several institutions, including, UCLA, Boston University, Stanford University and the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife, analyzed blood samples from nearly 10,000 people to find that genetic markers in the gene responsible for keeping telomeres (tips of chromosomes) youthfully longer, did not translate into a younger biologic age as measured by changes in proteins coating the DNA.

American Federation for Aging Research Fellow at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York; USA From: Salt Lake City, USA Prize Category: Translational Medicine Essay: A Novel Target for Pharmacological Intervention in an Untreatable Human Disease

«Depression and dementia, which typically impact other medical conditions, are difficult for primary care doctors to treat during their limited time with patients,» said Regenstrief Institute investigator and IU Center for Aging Research scientist Michael LaMantia, M.D., MPH, who led the study.

Dr. Nir Barzilai, the director of Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, has been researching the drug, with the hopes of one day getting it approved as an anti-aging treatment by the FDA.

«He's very much a «meeting man,»» says Anders Olsen, a Ph.D. candidate in genetics at the Buck Institute for Age Research in Novato, California, who did his master's degree research with Clark at Aarhus.

«A new model organism for aging research: The short - lived African killifish.»

The Critical Care Recovery Center (CCRC) care model developed by the Regenstrief Institute and IU Center for Aging Research scientists is the nation's first collaborative care concept focusing on the extensive cognitive, physical, and psychological recovery needs of intensive care unit survivors and decreasing the likelihood of serious illness after discharge from an ICU.

Co-author Douglas P. Kiel, M.D., M.P.H, Director, Musculoskeletal Research Center and Senior Scientist at Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research said, «We calculated the epigenetic aging rate for each person using a previously described epigenetic clock method.

American Federation for Aging Research AFAR Research Grants The major goal of this program is to assist in the development of the careers of junior investigators committed to pursuing careers in the field of aging research.

Aging - related research programs are still run on an ad hoc basis and funding remains difficult to get, but since she entered the field, «there has been much more attention from the government [and] from the research organizations in the Netherlands for aging research,» she says.

Now, researchers from the Leibniz Institute on Aging (FLI) in Jena, Germany, have obtained the fish's genome sequence — a significant milestone for the establishment of N. furzeri as a new model system for aging research.

Dr. Doyle was awarded an American Federation for Aging Research Fellowship in 2009, an Anita Roberts Young Scientist Scholarship in 2010, and a K99 / R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institute of Nursing Research in 2012.

IU Center for Aging Research investigators have developed and validated the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit 7 — the CAM - ICU - 7 for short — an easy - to - use delirium severity instrument that scores delirium on a scale of 0 to 7 — mild to severe delirium — and is useable with all ICU patients, including those on mechanical ventilation.

In a new study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research found older adults with type 2 diabetes had deficits in cortical bone — the dense outer surface of bone that forms a protective layer around the internal cavity — compared to non-diabetics.

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Scientists at the Institute for Aging Research seek to transform the human experience of aging by conducting research that will ensure a life of health, dignity and productivity into advanced age.

Greater attention to behavioral outcomes is critical for aging research's ultimate goal of increasing not only lifespan but healthspan, the period over which the quality of life remains high.

The American Federation for Aging Research chose to highlight a few of our collaborators, Dr. Giulio Taglialatela and Dr. Joshua Shulman, for their contributions to our most recent publication in PLOS Biology.

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The work and the researchers involved were supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the Nomis Foundation, the Della Thome Foundation, the Bundy Foundation, the Hewitt Foundation, the Paul F. Glenn Center for Aging Research at the Salk Institute and the Waitt Foundation.

The article's conclusions are based on a study conducted at the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife using information from The Framingham Heart Study - a collection of data from Framingham, MA residents and their offspring dating back to the 1940s.

The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is a simple yet powerful eukaryotic model organism for aging research.

«Rapamycin is already used in humans for unrelated things,» says Steven Austad, scientific director of the American Federation for Aging Research and chair of the University of Alabama at Birmingham biology department.

«Evolution has definitely modified life span — it's happening even as we speak,» says Judith Campisi, a molecular biologist at the Buck Institute for Age Research in Novato, California.

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Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research (IFAR), Wageningen University, Tilburg University, University of Reading, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre (BIDMC) have discovered that higher intake of dairy foods, such as milk, yoghurt, and cheese is associated with higher volumetric bone mineral density and vertebral strength at the spine in men.

«Cognitive aging is not a disease or a level of impairment — it is a lifelong process that affects everyone,» explains lead author Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, Massachusetts and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research.

Buck Institute for Age Research.

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«Currently, the CAM is the most widely used tool in the world to screen for delirium,» says Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H., Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS)- affiliated Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research (IFAR) in Boston and HMS Professor of Medicine.

In the early 1990s, when Nir Barzilai, now the director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, decided to study aging, he did so in part because the competition was so sparse.

The study was partially funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the American Federation for Aging Research.

Researchers from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research have developed and validated a novel easy - to - administer tool to score and track delirium severity in the ICU, enabling clinicians to make better decisions about the brain health of ICU patients.

Dr. Boustani is the founder of the IU Center for Innovation and Implementation Science, deputy director of the IU Center for Aging Research, an IU School of Medicine professor and a Regenstrief Institute investigator.

«Not enough emphasis has been placed on assessing delirium severity in the ICU because there is a lack of understanding of how significant outcomes of delirium are for patients,» said IU School of Medicine, IU Center for Aging Research, and Regenstrief Institute faculty member Babar A. Khan, MD, who led the study.

Dillin is codirector of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Aging Research, a new collaboration between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco supported by the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research.

Funded Up and Raring to Go The nonprofit American Federation for Aging Research has just announced its 2003 grant awardees, and four winners tell how they plan to use the money.

The Aging Brain Care Medical Home, a novel population health management program implemented in the homes of older adults achieves significant health improvement for individuals with depression and also substantial stress reduction in family caregivers of dementia patients, according to a new study by investigators from the Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University Center for Aging Research and Eskenazi Health.

«The research is really to prevent the chronic debilitating diseases of aging,» says Nir Barzilai, a molecular geneticist and director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

In the lab of Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Francine Einstein (not a descendant) has given an experimental drug to 30 rats while shining a light on their visceral fat.

Leibniz Institute for Age Research — Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI).

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Researchers from Leibniz Institute for Age Research — Fritz Lipmann Institute (Jena, Germany) now identified a crucial role of telomeres, the end structures of chromosomes, for sensing cells with a wrong chromosome number, referred to as aneuploidy.

Researchers from Leibniz Institute for Age Research — Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena, Germany, have now found surprising news on the role that telomeres and telomerase play for the tumorigenic process (published in The EMBO Journal).