Senior and New Scholars Awards for New York University

Dr. Matthew Rockman

New York University
2009 new Scholar Award in aging
Genetic variation contributes to differences in aging among individuals, populations, and species. We aim to use this genetic variation as a tool to discover the specific genes that contribute to age-related traits in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, to infer the mechanisms by which genetic variants influence aging, and to test...

Funded Institutions

The Ellison Medical Foundation fosters research by means of grants-in-aid on behalf of investigators to universities and laboratories within the United States. Institutions receiving awards must be tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations or U.S. colleges or universities.