National Academy of Medicine Archives - Page 9 of 13

Delaying menopause and increasing reproductive longevity with Mullerian Inhibiting Substance

David Pepin, PhD; Patricia Donahoe, MD | Massachusetts General Hospital
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Award year: 2021 Fertility clinics around the world measure the levels of a hormone called Mullerian Inhibiting Substance (MIS) as a marker of ovarian “age”. Women are born with a set number of…

Catalyst Awardee

The Role of Mitochondrial in Stem Cell Transplantation

Atena Zahedi, PhD | Stem Cell Research Center
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Award year: 2021 Transplantation of human neural stem cells (hNSC) to repair damaged tissues in traumatic injuries has shown promise in pre-clinical studies and early clinical trials. Spinal cord injury (SCI) is marked by a…

Catalyst Awardee

Unraveling the Mycobiome: Fungi as a novel class of probiotics to target inflammaging

Douglas Kiel, MD, MPH; Shivani Sahni, PhD; and Eric Schott, PhD | Solarea Bio, Inc
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Award year: 2021
*Accelerator Awardee An aging population has led to a significant global increase in age-related diseases including cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s, and others. At the core of…

Catalyst Awardee

Designing music-based interventions for aging-related pain: Sonifying body movement using interactive mobile technology to improve physical and psychological outcomes

Elizabeth Murnane, PhD | Dartmouth College, School of Engineering
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Award year: 2021
*Accelerator Awardee Music is potent medicine, positively contributing to human development, disease treatment, and overall well-being throughout the lifespan. Exploring how music-based interventions can transform how we promote healthy aging, this…

Catalyst Awardee

Repurposing the lightbulb to support healthy ageing

Daniel Joyce, PhD; Michael Webster, PhD University of Nevada, Reno Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine Light is a powerful modifier of human behavior and drives the way that we feel, think, and act. However, in today’s society we don’t get enough light during the day while getting too…

Catalyst Awardee

A novel treatment for age-induced loss of muscle strength (frailty)

Stephen Meriney, PhD | Department of Neuroscience
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Award year: 2021 More than one third of adults aged 65 and older will fall each year. The Centers for Disease Control report that falls are the leading cause of death relating to injury, and that…

Catalyst Awardee

A platform for identifying synergistic longevity interventions

George Sutphin, PhD University of Arizona Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine We are on the precipice of real anti-aging medicine. Over the past several decades, research into the biology of aging has identified nearly a thousand genetic changes and hundreds of drugs capable of extending lifespan in eukaryotic…

Catalyst Awardee

The Aging Exposome: Characterizing Bidirectional Effects of Exposures and Aging

Ram Gouripeddi, MBBS, MS; Julio Facelli, PhD | Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Award year: 2021 Effects of a lifetime of environmental and lifestyle exposures on aging or age-associated diseases are not well understood. Exposures not only directly affect biological pathways…

Catalyst Awardee

Combating Arterial Aging by Engineering the Gut Virome to Transmit Equol Producing Genes

Justyn Jaworski, PhD and Dan Trott, PhD | University of Texas at Arlington
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Award year: 2021 Advanced age is the major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), which is one of the leading causes of death in the industrialized world. Vascular aging manifests…

Catalyst Awardee

A multi-sensor wearable system with a personalized AI and multimodal biofeedback to improve balance of older adults at home

Alparslan Emrah Bayrak, PhD,and Antonia Zaferiou, PhD | Stevens Institute of Technology
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Yer: 2021 Falls remain a leading cause of morbidity and decreased quality of life in our older adult community. About half of older adult falls occur in the home. In…

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