SRF Research Center Immunologist Application Form

UPDATE: This post has been filled. Immunologist SENS Research Foundation (SRF) is seeking a full-time researcher for a Scientist position to work at our Research Center located in Mountain View, California. The position is to lead a new intramural research project geared toward performing translational research studying aging as it relates to the immune system, …

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A Small Molecule Approach to Removal of Toxic Oxysterols as a Treatment For Atherosclerosis

This research program has successfully spun-out into a company! Visit the Cyclarity Therapeutics website for more information on their transformative approach to atherosclerosis. SENS Research Foundation Research Center Principal Investigator: Matthew O’ConnorResearch Team: Amelia Anderson, Carolyn Barnes, Angielyn Campo, Anne Corwin, Sirish Narayanan Many diseases of aging are driven in part by the accumulation of “junk inside …

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Repairing the Brain: Engineering Cells for Cognitive Preservation

Albert Einstein College of Medicine Principal Investigator: Jean HébertResearch Team: Hiroko Nobuta, Joanna Krzyspiak, Alexandra Quezada, Marta Gronska-Peski, Jayleecia Smith Of all the challenges in cell therapy, replacement of neurons in the neocortex is both the most important (the brain being the seat of consciousness and identity) and perhaps the most formidable. Only recently have any …

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Glucosepane Crosslinks and Undoing Age-Related Tissue Damage

This research program has successfully spun-out into a company! Visit the Revel Pharmaceuticals website for more information on their transformative approach to tissue cross-linking and vascular disease. Yale University Principal Investigator: David SpiegelResearch Team: Prof. Jason Crawford, Nam Kim, Venkata Sabbasani, Matthew Streeter The long-lived collagen proteins that give structure to our arteries and other …

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Maximally Modifiable Mouse

This project has recently concluded; further information will be published in the near future. Applied StemCell, Inc. Principal Investigator: Dr. Ruby Yanru Chen-Tsai The CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system has the ability to make precisely-targeted changes in the genetic sequence – a clear strength of the platform – but is limited in its lack of an …

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Remediation of Aberrant Intracellular Tau

This project has recently concluded; further information will be published in the near future. Buck Institute for Research on Aging Principal Investigator: Dr. Julie AndersenResearch Team: Cyrene Arputhasamy, Manish Chamoli, Anand Rane Aging brains accumulate aggregates composed of aberrant forms of the protein tau, both inside and outside of neurons. These aggregates are an important …

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Turning Back the Clock on Tissue Stiffness and Aging

The Babraham Institute Principal Investigator: Jonathan ClarkResearch Team: Melanie Stammers As discussed in the project summary for “Glucosepane Crosslinks and Undoing Age-Related Tissue Damage”, adventitious crosslinking of collagen and elastin contributes to the slow stiffening of our arteries and other tissues with age. Some of these crosslinks occur as a result of spontaneous chemistry (as in …

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SciFuture Interview

In conversation with Adam Ford, Dr. Aubrey de Grey explains how recent extraordinary results with senolytic drugs suggest that the milestone of “Robust Mouse Rejuvenation” – a key step towards comprehensively undoing human aging – could be as little as three years away.

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