Funder: American Federation for Aging Research
Due Dates (Anticipated): December 2026 (Letter of Intent) | April 2027 (Full application)
Funding Amounts: Up to $160,000 total over one or two years
Summary: Supports independent junior faculty conducting aging-related omics research and developing careers in aging research.
Key Information: Applicants must have independent research space at a U.S. nonprofit institution and meet early-career and prior-funding restrictions.
Description
Administered by the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and supported by The Sagol Network, this award develops the careers of early-career investigators committed to aging research, particularly ger-omics: omics research focused on aging and age-related disease. The program seeks insights into the biological complexity and heterogeneity of aging while helping investigators establish sustained research careers.
Supported approaches include genomics, epigenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, methylomics, and other omics examining biological versus chronological aging in animals and humans. Comparative omics studies of animals with different life spans and omics studies of aging-related interventions and therapeutics also fit the program. Disease-focused projects should illuminate how basic aging processes contribute to disease outcomes, rather than simply study diseases common in older adults. Alzheimer's disease and related dementias research is excluded.
