Impetus Longevity Award For Epigenetics Research
The Freeman Lab, along with colleagues at the OMRF in the Wren lab received a one year grant from the Impetus Longevity funding program. This grant “Role of age-related cytosine mutations in epigenetic age predictions” is work by student Hunter Porter to examined the contribution of heteroplasmic genomic mutations to epigenomic aging clocks.
Graduate Students Receive Fellowships
Congratulations to Victor Ansere for being awarded an OMRF Pre-doctoral Scholarship endowed by the John and Mildred Carson PhD Scholarship Fund and Kyla Tooley for receiving a fellowship from the Oklahoma GeroScience Training Program though an NIH t32 award at OUHSC.
Sarah Ocanas elected American Aging Association Trainee Vice Chair/Secretary
Sarah Ocanas will be representing the OKC Geroscience community nationally through her election as Vice Chair/Secretary of the Trainee Chapter. This chapter represents all trainees in the society from across the US.