✨ 🔦 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.

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.

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!

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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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!

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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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...

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/...

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...

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...

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...

📢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

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...

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/

📢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...

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

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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📢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

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...

📣 @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

📣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!

Our NIA funded High Priority Research network on Animal Models for the Social Dimension of Health and Aging just landed on Bsky @animalsocaging.bsky.social
- follow us for updates and new RFAs

www.animalsocialaging-network.org

@smacklab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social

🎤Hey, is this thing on?

The Animal Models for the Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Research Network is on Bluesky! We are an NIA-funded network headquartered at UMN, ASU, UNC, and Duke that supports early-career scientists using animal models to study social aging. New funding available soon!