The Mayo Clinic Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Kogod Center on Aging announced 2019 Innovation in Aging Awards. The awards support aging research that is novel to Mayo Clinic and has the potential to impact geriatric patient care.
Alanna Chamberlain, Ph.D. (HSR '10)
"Prescription Drugs and Healthy Aging: A Case-Control Study"
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences Research
Assistant professor of epidemiology
Mayo Clinic in Rochester
Elizabeth Lorenz, M.D. (I '06, NEPH '10)
Ara and Sonya Hacet Career Development Award in Transplant
"Improving Frailty and Long-Term Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation"
Joao Passos, Ph.D. (PHYS '19)
"Investigate the Role of BAX/BAK as a Driver of Inflammation in the Aging Lung"
Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Associate professor of physiology
Mayo Clinic in Rochester