Model organisms, whether they are yeast, worms, fruit flies, mice, and even animal cells in tissue culture, have proven a fertile ground for discovery of factors, genetic and environmental, that impinge upon the biological aging process and determine life span. Some of these factors make their operation apparent in more than one of these...
Senior and New Scholars Awards for Tulane University
Dr. S. Michal Jazwinski
Tulane University
2005 senior Scholar Award in aging
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Dr. Victoria Perepelitsa Belancio
Tulane University
2008 new Scholar Award in aging
While almost half of the human genome is occupied by mobile element-related sequences, LINEs (Long INterspersed Elements, L1s) and their parasites are the only active mobile elements still altering DNA composition and perturbing the stability of the host genome. The best characterized and most well understood form of the L1-induced damage is...
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Non-Scholar Awards for Tulane University
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2004 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5000 to help support the Biological Section Symposia at the The Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting held November 19-23, 2004 in Washington, DC. For further information, see http://www.geron.org/AnnualMeeting/annual.htm.
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1999 Conferences and Workshops Scholar Award in Aging
An Ellison Medical Foundation award of $10,000 provided co-funding for the conference "Molecular Mechanisms of Aging: Metabolic Control and Resistance to Stress" held January 30 to February 4, 2000 in Ventura, CA. Sessions focussed on genetic analysis of metabolic signaling; biochemical and physiological analysis of metabolic signaling; analysis...
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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.
The Ellison Medical Foundation