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Animal Models for Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Network
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Our NIA-funded Research Network supports research that integrates animal models into studies of social aging. We facilitate idea exchange among early-career researchers working on animal models and support projects in areas of network interest.
🔦✨ Research Network Spotlight!✨🔦

Dr. Frank Raven, postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Dr. Sara Aton at University of Michigan, is the second awardee of a 2025-2026 Bruce McEwen Fellowship through our Research Network. Check out a description of Dr. Raven's project below!
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
🔦✨ Research Network Spotlight!✨🔦

Sabrina Mederos, PhD candidate at UC Davis, is one of two 2025-2026 Bruce McEwen Fellowship awardees through our Research Network. Check out a description of Sabrina's research below.

@bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social @smacklab.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Did you know that we offer funding opportunities for small/working group meetings in areas-of-interest to our Network?

Want to meet with like-minded scientists to workshop the social determinants of health and aging?

Accepting applications now! www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/smal...
Small/Working Group Meetings | Animal Models for the Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Research Network
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October 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
✨🔦Research Network Spotlight!🔦✨

@ctestard.bsky.social at Harvard University is the second recipient of a 2025-2026 Pilot & Feasibility award from our Research Network. Check out a description of Dr. Testard's project below.

@bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social @smacklab.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
✨ 🔦 Research Network Spotlight! 🔦 ✨

Dr. Millie Rincón-Cortés at the University of Texas at Dallas is one of two recipients of a 2025-2026 Pilot & Feasibility award from our Research Network. Check out a description of her project on early life programming and neuroimmune aging in the image below.
October 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
And congratulations to our 2025-2026 Pilot & Feasibility award winners Camille Testard (Harvard) and Millie Rincón-Cortés (UT Dallas). Their projects will focus on social bonds and early life programming in animal models to study the social determinants of health and aging.
September 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Congratulations to our 2025-2026 Bruce McEwen Fellowship awardees!

Sabrina Mederos (UC Davis)
Frank Raven (U Michigan)

Congratulations also to travel fellowship awardee Stephanie Fox (UC Santa Barbara). We look forward to your project success!
September 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Proud to announce the publication of our new paper describing the design, chemical synthesis and testing of a novel class of Complement 3a Receptor (C3aR) agonists and antagonists derived from the TLQP-21 peptide

@pubs.acs.org Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

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September 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Network leader @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social has been named editor-in-chief of Neuroscience and BioBehavioral Reviews. This peer-reviewed journal publishes reviews that integrate brain function and behavior of model organism and humans in a range of areas.

Congratulations, Alessandro!
August 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Research Network 2023 Pilot & Feasibility awardee @brianmsweis.bsky.social published two papers in Science Advances in July of this year that feature his research on the neuroeconomics of decision making. Join us in congratulating Dr. Sweis!

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Change-of-mind neuroeconomic decision-making is modulated by LINC00473 in medial prefrontal cortex in a sex-dependent manner
Long non-coding RNA LINC00473 in mPFC alters change-of-mind re-evaluative decision-making behavior related to negative rumination.
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August 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Today is the last day to apply for a small/working group meeting grant from our NIA-funded Research Network! Thanks to all of those who have applied to this and other Network funding mechanisms. Awardees selected soon!

Apply here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/smal...
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July 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Congratulations to Bruce McEwen Fellowship recipient Dr. Sarah Wolf for publishing "Telomere-Related Gene Networks in the Ovary Shift Across Environmental Factors" in the Journal of Experimental Zoology - Part A!

Read the full text here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Telomere‐Related Gene Networks in the Ovary Shift Across Environmental Factors
The ovary is key to linking environmental factors with the timing and quality of offspring development. Focused on free-living female tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor), we measured temporal variati....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Last day for early-career scientists (advanced PhD, postdoc, and faculty) to apply for a McEwen Fellowship, an up-to-$6,000 individual award available for research related to animal models and the social determinants of health and aging.

Apply here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/fell...
July 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
One week left to apply for the McEwen Fellowship!

Our Research Network awards 1-3 early-career scientists up to $6,000 for using animal models or comparative approaches to study the social determinants of aging.

Details on how to apply here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/fell...
July 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Remider!
Applications for the McEwen Career Development fellowship in Social Determinants of Health supported by the NIA-BSR High Priority Research Network animalsocialaging-network.org are now open!

apply here animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/fell...
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July 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
📢Applications for Small/Working Group Meeting grants are now open!

Interested in organizing a meeting or working group to collaborate, dialogue, and produce research pursuant to Network aims? Apply here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/smal...

Deadline: July 31
Small/Working Group Meetings | Animal Models for the Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Research Network
The Research Network is pleased to offer grants for small/working group meetings with the aim of facilitating collaboration among Network members and affiliates and prospective Network members. These…
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July 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Today is the last day to submit an application for our Network's Pilot & Feasibility awards!

Individual or mentored projects available at up to $20,000 in total costs. See the quoted post for more details and visit our website for the full RFA:

www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/pilo...
June 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The application window for our Pilot awards and McEwen fellowship closes soon! If you have a project proposal that focuses on animal models and comparative studies to study the social elements of human aging, we encourage you to apply!

See more here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/
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June 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
📢Applications for the McEwen fellowship are now open!

We expect to award 1-3 fellowships (up to $6,000 each) to early-career scientists with a proposal within the broad scope of our research network’s interests.

Deadline: July 15

Apply here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/fell...
Fellowships | Animal Models for the Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Research Network
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June 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Reminder - funding opportunity available trough the @animalsocaging.bsky.social

Pilot & Feasibility Awards
Application period - June 1 to June 30

B. McEwen Career Development Fellowship
Application period - June 15 to July 15

Small/Working Group Awards
Application period - July 1 to July 31
📢Applications are OPEN for our Pilot awards!

Individual or mentored projects available with up to $20,000 in total costs! Read the full RFA and apply at the link below!

www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/pilo...

@smacklab.bsky.social @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Interested in learning more about our NIA-funded network? Check out this @science.org feature video from 2020 shortly before our network launched, then visit our website to learn about new Pilot & Feasibility award opportunities!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwIC...
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Animal and human studies reveal health impacts of social inequality
YouTube video by Science Magazine
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June 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
📢Applications are OPEN for our Pilot awards!

Individual or mentored projects available with up to $20,000 in total costs! Read the full RFA and apply at the link below!

www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/pilo...

@smacklab.bsky.social @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
New Research Network publication alert!

@sheehanmj.bsky.social and @matthewzipple.bsky.social, both recipients of Network Pilot & Feasibility awards, have published a paper in Aging Cell on ecological realism and epigenetic aging in mice. Congratulations, Mike and Matthew! doi.org/10.1111/acel...
Ecological Realism Accelerates Epigenetic Aging in Mice
Living environment shapes mammalian aging, but laboratory conditions lack the ecological realism of natural social, physical, and microbial environments. Comparing traditionally laboratory-reared and...
doi.org
May 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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📣 @animalsocaging.bsky.social NIA-funded high priority research network - funding available soon!📣

Stay tuned for 3 RFAs:
1. Pilot awards - June 30th
2. The Bruce McEwen Fellowship - July 15
3. Small/working group - July 31

More info on the network: www.animalsocialaging-network.org
Animal Models for the Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Research Network
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May 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
📣New network funding available soon!📣

The Request for Applications for our Research Network's pilot awards (June 1-June 30), the Bruce McEwen Fellowship (June 15-July 15), and small/working group awards (July 1-July 31) will be live on our website (www.animalsocialaging-network.org) in two weeks!
Animal Models for the Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Research Network
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May 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM