NEW YORK — The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2023 Sagol Network GerOmic Award for Junior Faculty: Timothy Rhoads, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Established in 2020, the Sagol Network GerOmic Award for Junior Faculty is a one- to two-year award given to junior faculty (MDs and PhDs) to conduct aging-related Omics (GerOmics) research.
Omics is a rapidly evolving, multi-disciplinary, and emerging field that encompasses genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. Each of these fields offers the possibility to understand and view biology from a global perspective in a way that was previously unthinkable. Given the biological complexity and heterogeneity of the aging process, omics research can play an important role in providing important insights into the aging process and many age-related diseases.
Rhoads’ funded project is titled “The role of hepatic RNA processing in the beneficial metabolic effects of caloric restriction.“ This research seeks to identify potential relationships between hepatic RNA processing and changes to systemic metabolism in the context of delayed aging by caloric restriction in a mouse model.
“Omics research has tremendous potential to impact healthy lifespan and build on the foundation of knowledge in the basic biology of aging and geroscience that AFAR has advanced for decades,” says Sami Sagol, Founder, Sagol Network and AFAR board member.
“GerOmics research is essential to help unfold the complexity of biology of aging,” says Stephanie Lederman, EdM, Executive Director, AFAR. “AFAR is pleased to continue our collaboration with the Sagol Network to encourage early career investigators to focus their research on this vital emerging field.”