Mayo Clinic Innovation in Aging Awards fund early-stage investigators in novel aging research
Mayo Clinic’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Kogod Center on Aging offer Innovation in Aging Awards. The awards support early-stage investigators pursuing novel aging research that has the potential to affect geriatric care. Awardees receive $50,000 per year in direct costs for study expenses for one year.
2018 awardees
Irina Bancos, M.D. (ENDO '12)
Endocrinology
Abhishek Chandra, Ph.D. (PHYS '16)
Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Assistant professor of physiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
"Role of Cellular Senescence in Radiotherapy-Induced Osteoporosis and Related Fracture Nonunions"
Donna M. Miller, M.D. (HIM '16)
Division of Hospital Internal Medicine
Department of Medicine
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Instructor in medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
"Engaging the Patient to Prevent Injurious Falls in the Hospital"
Haitao Wang, Ph.D. (PHYS '19), Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic in Rochester