NOMIS Awardee Anne Brunet has been granted an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award as part of the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. The award will support Brunet’s investigation of aging and age-related diseases.
The NIH Director’s Pioneer Award is granted to scientists with outstanding records of creativity pursuing new research directions to develop pioneering approaches to major challenges in biomedical, social science, and behavioral research.
“In Anne Brunet’s lab, this grant will support research aimed at understanding how the distribution of nerves in organs responds to aging. Brunet’s lab has recently developed new methods to better understand the complex ways in which aging alters the functions of our organs. These include approaches that combine machine learning and spatial transcriptomics to determine the age of multiple cell types and establishing a new vertebrate model system for aging studies, the African killifish. The goal of this work, overall, is ‘resetting’ organ function and coordination during aging.” — Stanford Report
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