Senior and New Scholars Awards for Children's Hospital, Oakland Research Institute

Dr. Bruce N. Ames

Children's Hospital, Oakland Research Institute
1999 senior Scholar Award in aging
Research Interests. Our major interest is the decay of mitochondria with age due to the oxidative damage of mtDNA, proteins, and lipids. We are making progress in reversing some of this mitochondrial decay in old rats by the feeding of normal mitochondrial metabolites at high levels; we now wish to extend this work to humans. Our second...

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.