Award Recipients
Welcome to the Wisconsin Nathan Shock Center (WiNSC) Award Recipients page. This page highlights our Award Cycle 1 recipients, whose projects span Pilot Awards, Idea Awards, Weindruch Scholar Awards, and collaborative funding opportunities. Together, these investigators represent the breadth of aging biology research supported by WiNSC, from fundamental studies of cellular and metabolic processes to translational research aimed at improving health across the lifespan. Their work reflects WiNSC’s commitment to fostering innovative science and collaborative research that advances geroscience and healthy aging.
Award Cycle 1
Intersecting Effects of Aging and Vitamin D3 on Immune Response to Mycobacterium Infection
Elebeoba May, PhD
Idea Award
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Age-related alterations in immunometabolism in skeletal muscle health and recovery
Zachary Fennel, PhD
Weindruch Scholar Award
University of Utah
Dissecting the Role of Adipose Heme Biosynthesis in Age-Related Metabolic Dysfunction
Andrea Galmozzi, PhD
Pilot Award
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mapping lipidomics changes of anti-inflammatory adaptation to aging in the spleen
Devin Schweppe, PhD
Pilot Award
University of Washington
Immunometabolism of neutrophils across the lifespan
Anna Huttenlocher, MD David Beebe, PhD & Igor Slukvin, MD, PhD
Pilot Award
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Linking lipid signaling and metabolism in astrocytes to neuroinflammation during aging
Mariana Pehar, PhD
Pilot Award, Shared (ADRC/Gerontology)
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Aged Stem Cells at Both Ends of the Gut–Muscle Axis: Metabolic Remodeling by Aerobic Exercise
Eric Yen, PhD & Romeo Blanc, PhD
Idea Award
University of Wisconsin–Madison
YY1‑Directed 3D Genome Architecture as a Driver of Metabolic and Lineage Homeostasis in Aging HSCs
Xuan Pan, VMD, PhD, DACVIM
Idea Award
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Impact of chronic sleep deficiency on brain aging
Cassandra McGill, PhD & Carol Everson, PhD
Idea Award
University of Wisconsin–Madison & Medical College of Wisconsin
Investigating the functions of CARM1 in aging-related breast cancer bone metastasis
Wei Xu, PhD & Jing Zhang, PhD
Pilot Award, Shared (UWCCC)
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lipid dysregulation–driven microglial activation as a mechanism of accelerated retinal aging in Tmem135 mutant mice
Akihiro Ikeda, PhD
Pilot Award
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Acetylation of the RNA helicase DDX39B as a metabolic switch during caloric restriction
Timothy Rhoads, PhD
Weindruch Scholar Award
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Plasma Aging Signatures Shaped by a Low-Fat, Methionine-Restricted Diet: A Liquid Biopsy Approach
Jaspreet Kaur Osan, PhD
Pilot Award
University of North Dakota
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