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AR Captions Increase Comprehension, Social Connection & Mental Well-Being

Alex Westner | Xander; Marilyn Morgan Westner, PhD | Xander
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2022 Worldwide, about 466 million people experience disabling hearing loss. In the U.S., approximately one in three people between 65 and 74 are impacted by hearing loss and nearly…

Catalyst Awardee

AI-Based Conversational Agent for Monitoring Cognitive Health of Older Adults

Mohammad H. Mahoor, PhD | Dream Face Technologies, LLC & University of Denver; Eshrat S. Emamian, DDS, PhD | Dream Face Technologies, LLC; Hojjat Abdollahi, MS | Dream Face Technologies, LLC; Hiroko Dodge, PhD | Oregon Health and Science University
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee…

Catalyst Awardee

Uncovering molecular mechanisms of aging clocks with interpretable deep learning

Hong Qin, PhD, MS | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2022 The molecular mechanism of the biological aging clock, such as the DNA methylation clock, remains obscure. We propose developing a knowledge-based neural network (KNN) model to infer the conserved…

Catalyst Awardee

Systems-Aligned Precision Health for Longevity and Healthy Aging with Type 1 Diabetes

Anna Kahkoska, MD, PhD | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Kristen Hassmiller Lich, PhD | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Michael Kosorok, PhD | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; John Batsis, MD | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Competition Sponsor: US…

Catalyst Awardee

CARS Silver: Mental Health Screening and Targeted Resources for Older Adults

Sarah E. Nelson, PhD | Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance; Debi A. LaPlante, PhD | Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2022 Mental health consists of the absence of mental disorder and the presence of emotional, psychological, and…

Catalyst Awardee

The Social-Medical Network: Using a Network Approach to Explore the Integration of Informal and Formal Care Networks of Older Adults

Catherine Ann Clair, MHS | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Karin Tobin, PhD | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Competition Sponsor: U.S. National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2022 Older adults have two care networks, their informal network and their formal network. The informal network…

Catalyst Awardee

Nanomedicine to detect senescence

Aditi Gurkar, Ph.D. | Aging Institute, University of Pittsburgh; Rama Balasubramanian, Ph.D.
Competition Sponsor: U.S. National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2022 To date, a unified molecular fingerprint for senescence is unknown. Importantly, senescent cells also display distinct morphological features, including enlarged cell size, increased mitochondrial and lysosomal (organelle)…

Catalyst Awardee

Tailoring Tissue Engineering Approaches to the Aging Population

Rosalyn Abbott, PhD | Carnegie Mellon University
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2022 Biomaterials can be used to restore or replace tissue function by filling defects, providing physical stability, and allowing cells to infiltrate, expand in number, and form tissue. One of the goals of tissue…

Catalyst Awardee

Effects of maternal obesity on oocyte aging in female offspring of the BPH/5 preeclamptic-like mouse

Jenny L. Sones, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACT | Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine; Fiona Herzog, DVM | Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2022 The majority of adults in the United States are overweight or obese…

Catalyst Awardee

Imaging oxidant production to improve aging and longevity

John W. Chen, MD, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Cuihua Wang, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2022 Oxidative stress is postulated to be involved in aging and many diseases. When oxidative species…

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