{"id":2661,"date":"2021-12-02T06:10:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T11:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/aging\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2023-05-11T14:04:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T18:04:01","slug":"uconn-center-on-aging-graduate-assistants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/aging\/2021\/12\/02\/uconn-center-on-aging-graduate-assistants\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Center on Aging Graduate Assistants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Gasek and Blake Torrance UConn Center on Aging graduate assistants, enrolled in the UConn MD\/Ph.D. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences training programs, respectively are winners of 2021 American Foundation for Aging Research (AFAR) scholarships. The Diana Jacobs Kalman\/AFAR Scholarships for Research in the Biology of Aging aim to give students the chance to learn more about the field of aging research, as well as increase their understanding of the challenges involved in improving the quality of life for older people. The program gives students $5,000 scholarships each to conduct a three-to-six-month research project. With his mentor Dr. Ming Xu, Gasek will be \u201cExamining p21High Senescent Cell Accumulation in Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Pathogenesis,\u201d while Torrance with his mentor Dr. Laura Haynes will be \u201cInvestigating the Role of the Senescent Environment in Shaping T cell Immunity following Influenza Vaccination.\u201d This year UConn was the only institution to receive two Diana Jacobs Kalman\/AFAR Scholarships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Gasek and Blake Torrance UConn Center on Aging graduate assistants, enrolled in the UConn MD\/Ph.D. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences training programs, respectively are winners of 2021 American Foundation for Aging Research (AFAR) scholarships. The Diana Jacobs Kalman\/AFAR Scholarships for Research in the Biology of Aging aim to give students the chance to learn&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 16:29:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/aging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}