Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2310 The University of Texas at San Antonio (144198)
Principal Investigator: Campos, Fernando
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 569,723
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 7/1/22 - 6/30/27
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: ARTS
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Colfa Anthropology
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: A new model system for assessing the socio-environmental determinants of the pace of aging: leveraging a long-term study of wild capuchins
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
National Institute on Aging (NIA) - NIH
CFDA Link: HHS
93.866
Program Title:
none
CFDA Linked: Aging Research
Note:
SAMS 1.1.1; The overarching objective of this research project is to generate new insights into how social and physical environments influence heterogeneity in rates of aging and health disparities. We will accomplish this by developing a new model system for the study of biological aging, using a combination of field-based behavioral observation and laboratory analyses of noninvasive biological samples from wild white-faced capuchins. By the conclusion of the research study, we will have established an innovative wild animal model of health and aging, with newly developed biomarkers to track aging processes in an exceptional breadth of different body systems and extended phenotypes. By integrating these new measures with our outstanding long-term data, we will shed new light on potential mechanisms that explain individual differences in the progression of aging, and in doing so, take an important step toward understanding how to extend the years of active, healthy life in humans.
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