Senior and New Scholars Awards for Rutgers University

Dr. Monica Driscoll

Rutgers University
2004 senior Scholar Award in aging

Addressing the health problems of the aged by exploiting experimentally manipulable animal models
The rapidly growing elderly population inevitably confronts an increased risk for several debilitating diseases, cognitive decline, and virtually certain loss in muscle strength over time--all of which add up to serious...

Non-Scholar Awards for Rutgers University

2006 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to the Gordon Research Conferences to support the Key Note Lecture "Evolutionary Biology and Aging: What is the Message?" by Dr. Thomas Kirkwood and the session on Fat and Dietary Restriction held at the conference on The Biology of Aging, From Cells to Centenarians: New Concepts, Old Problems January...

Funded Institutions

The Ellison Medical Foundation fosters research by means of grants-in-aid on behalf of investigators to universities and laboratories within the United States. Institutions receiving awards must be tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations or U.S. colleges or universities.