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🌟 Meet the AGE Board 🌟
Spotlight on Dr. Aditi U. Gurkar (University of Pittsburgh) — an NIH-funded researcher uncovering how DNA damage–driven signaling pathways contribute to biological aging, with the goal of extending healthspan.

#AgingResearch #Geroscience #Healthspan #AGEBoard2026 #PittMed
December 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🌟 Meet the AGE Board 🌟
Spotlight on Dr. Jessica M. Hoffman (Augusta University) — studying the molecular and genetic mechanisms that regulate aging, lifespan, and healthspan.

#AgingResearch #Geroscience #Healthspan #Longevity #AGEBoard #AugustaUniversity
December 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
🌟 Meet the AGE Board 🌟
Spotlight on Dr. Kristin Gribble (@MBLScience) — using rotifers to uncover aging mechanisms, maternal age effects, and transgenerational influences on lifespan.

#AgingResearch #Geroscience #ModelOrganism #HealthyAging #AGE2026 #MarineBiologicalLaboratory
December 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
🌟 Meet the AGE Spotlight 🌟
Today’s focus: Dr. Pankaj Kapahi at the @BuckInstitute — using fly, human & mammalian models to study aging & neurodegeneration.

📢 Kapahi Lab is hiring postdocs now! Interested candidates: [email protected]

#AgingResearch #Geroscience #Neurodegeneration
December 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Deadline is almost here!
Apply for the AGE Early Career Scholar’s Program before Dec 10.

Winners receive:
• 2-yr AGE membership
• $1300 travel award (AGE 2026)
• Chance to present research
• Mentorship from senior scholars

Apply now 👉 age.memberclicks.net
#AgingResearch #AGECommunity #Geroscience
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🌟 Meet the AGE Board 🌟
Today we spotlight Dr. Weiwei Dang, Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine (@BCMHouston).

#AgingResearch #Geroscience #Epigenetics
December 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🌟 Meet the AGE Board 🌟
Spotlight on Dr. Constanza Cortes (USC) — exploring how exercise and the muscle-brain axis can preserve brain health and combat age-related cognitive decline.

#AgingResearch #Geroscience #BrainAging #ExerciseScience #Longevity #AGEBoard #USC
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
🌟 Meet the AGE Board 🌟
Today we spotlight Dr. Bérénice Benayoun of USC Leonard Davis School, recipient of the 2024 Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star in Aging Research Award.

#AgingResearch #Geroscience #AGEBoard #LongevityScience #NIH #USC #CristofaloAward
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Deadline is almost here!
Apply for the AGE Early Career Scholar’s Program before Dec 10.

Winners receive:
• 2-yr AGE membership
• $1300 travel award (AGE 2026)
• Chance to present research
• Mentorship from senior scholars

Apply now 👉 age.memberclicks.net
#AgingResearch #AGECommunity #Geroscience
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🌟 Meet the AGE Board 🌟
Today we spotlight Dr. Isabel Beerman, Stadtman Investigator at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), #NIH).

Her research uncovers how aging disrupts adult tissue-specific stem cells and aims to restore their regenerative potential.

#AgingResearch #AGE2026
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
New research identifies a unique T-helper cell subset that increases with age and may help clear senescent cells — a potential lever for slowing biological aging.
At AGE, we champion discoveries that reveal how the immune system shapes longevity.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

#AgingResearch
November 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from AGE!
Grateful for the scientists, clinicians & supporters driving breakthroughs in aging research.
Your work moves us closer to longer, healthier lives. 🧡

#AgingResearch #Geroscience #LongevityScience #Healthspan #AGE2026 #Thanksgiving2025
November 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Enjoy the celebrations — and keep small habits that support healthy aging:
• Move a little
• Balance your meals
• Prioritize sleep
• Keep your mind active
• Hydrate
• Manage stress
• Stay connected

Wishing you a joyful, healthy holiday season!
#HealthyAging #AgingResearch #Healthspan #AGE2026
November 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
New tools are reshaping aging science. A recent Frontiers in Aging review highlights how AI models + wearable biosensors are creating “adaptive biological clocks” that track aging in real time and may predict disease earlier.
Read more: www.frontiersin.org/journals/agi...

#Geroscience #AGECommunity
Frontiers | Biomarker integration and biosensor technologies enabling AI-driven insights into biological aging
As the global population continues to age, there is an increasing demand for ways to accurately quantify the biological processes underlying aging. Biologica...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Deadline closing soon!

Apply for AGE’s Early Career Scholar’s Program — designed to support underrepresented minorities in aging research.

📅 Deadline: Dec 10, 2025
🔗 age.memberclicks.net
#AgingResearch #DiversityInScience #Geroscience #AGE2025 #CareerInScience
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM
From single-cell profiling to AI — aging science is evolving rapidly.
Which tool will push the next big discovery?

Options:
1) AI models
2) Wearable data
3) Organoids
4) Single-cell tools

#Geroscience #AgingBiology #ResearchInnovation
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
New NIH research shows even 15 minutes of brisk walking a day can reduce risks of multiple age-related diseases in adults 60+.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29402653/

At AGE, we’re committed to advancing science that extends healthspan.

#HealthyAging #Healthspan
November 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
🧠 New Stanford research identifies an age-linked inflammatory molecule that impairs brain plasticity. Blocking it restored youthful cognitive function in mice.

Breakthroughs like this highlight why early-stage aging research funding matters.

#AgingResearch #Neuroscience #Geroscience
November 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
At AGE, we support:
🧬 Aging mechanisms
🧪 Translational geroscience
🧫 Pilot studies
👩‍🔬 Early-career researchers

AGE Members — have a new publication or research update?
Share it with us so we can highlight your work!

Submit: age.memberclicks.net/age-new-rese...

#AgingScience #AGE2026 #Geroscience
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The AGE Annual Scientific Meeting 2026 brings together leading voices in aging biology for three days of groundbreaking research, collaboration, and innovation.

Stay connected for more updates regarding AGE Annual Meeting 2026!

#AGE2026 #AgingResearch #LongevityScience #ScientificConference
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Funding Alert for AGE Trainee Members!
Apply for the AGE VOYAGER Grant — up to $5,000 for hands-on training, mini-sabbaticals, or specialized courses in aging research.
🔹 Deadline: Jan 12, 2026
🔹 Open to: Graduate students & postdocs
👉 americanagingassociation.org/aging-research…#AgingResearchch
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Applications open soon!

Apply for AGE’s Early Career Scholar’s Program — designed to support underrepresented minorities in aging research.

📅 Deadline: Dec 10, 2025
🔗 age.memberclicks.net
#AgingResearch #DiversityInScience #Geroscience #AGE2025 #CareerInScience
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Funding Alert for AGE Trainee Members!
Apply for the AGE VOYAGER Grant — up to $5,000 for hands-on training, mini-sabbaticals, or specialized courses in aging research.
🔹 Deadline: Jan 12, 2026
🔹 Open to: Graduate students & postdocs
americanagingassociation.org/aging-research-funding-opportunities
November 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Applications open soon!

Apply for AGE’s Early Career Scholar’s Program — designed to support underrepresented minorities in aging research.

📅 Deadline: Dec 10, 2025
🔗 age.memberclicks.net
#AgingResearch #DiversityInScience #Geroscience #AGE2025 #CareerInScience
November 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Applications Open!

The Oklahoma Nathan Shock Center is accepting proposals for the 2025–2026 Pilot Program Awards 🧬

🔹 General Pilot Awards
🔹 Translational Research Pilot Awards
💰 $5,000–$20,000
📅 Deadline: Nov 5, 2025

Apply: oklahomanathanshockcenteronaging.org/pilot-grant

#AgingResearch
October 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM