Aging remains one of biology's most confusing and contentious subjects. That is, how a trait as deleterious as senescence, with death as its implicit endpoint, could be the product of natural selection. Many biologists have taken the view that senescence reflects an inevitable process of damage accumulation with age, analogous to the process of...
Senior and New Scholars Awards for Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Dr. Aviv Bergman
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
2009 senior Scholar Award in aging
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Dr. Nir Barzilai
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
2000 senior Scholar Award in aging
Despite evidence for a substantial genetic component, the inherited factors that define life span (longevity) in humans remain unknown. The overall objective of this proposal is to identify chromosomal loci (and ultimately genes) that influence longevity and longevity-related traits in humans, and to define how these genes exert their effects...
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Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
2002 new Scholar Award in aging
A common feature of aging is the accumulation of abnormal or damaged proteins inside cells with a consequent negative effect in cell function. Any attempt to remove these abnormal proteins may help in the functional recovery of different organs affected in aged organisms. Damaged or abnormal proteins are continuously removed from inside cells...
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Dr. Ernesto Abel-Santos
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
2002 new Scholar Award in gid
The continuous threats of bioterrorism, combined with the appearance of multi-drug resistant infections, have created the need for the development of new antimicrobial treatments. Peptides have been used successfully to treat diseases ranging from cancer to infections, but their use has been limited by instability towards cellular catabolism....
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Dr. David A. Fidock
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
2001 new Scholar Award in gid
Malaria is responsible for the deaths of millions of people yearly. Safe, inexpensive treatment and prophylaxis have been impeded by the spread of Plasmodium falciparum strains resistant to the major antimalarial drug chloroquine (CQ). Our investigations into the genetic basis of chloroquine resistance (CQR) have resulted in the identification of...
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Dr. William R. Jacobs, Jr.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
2001 senior Scholar Award in gid
Dr. Jacobs and his colleagues have identified bacteriophages (viruses) capable of infecting the pathogens that cause tuberculosis and the most deadly form of malaria. Such bacteriophages, they hope, can be used to manipulate the pathogens genetically in order to identify genes central to the pathogenesis of the diseases they cause. Working with...
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Non-Scholar Awards for Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
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2004 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to support a symposium at the International Congress on Microsporidiosis ìEmerging Pathogens in the 21st Century: First United Workshop on Microsporidia from Invertebrate and Vertebrate Hostsî held July 12-15, 2004 at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
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2003 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $9,500 to help support the International Symposium on the Genetics of Human Longevity held in the Lake of Galilee area of Israel on December 1-4, 2003.
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2003 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Infectious Disease
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to support the session on T. gondii: Relevance to Other Experimental Systems at the Seventh International Congress on Toxoplasmosis held on May 23-27, 2003 in Tarrytown, New York.
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Funded Institutions
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