assistant professor of dermatology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, received the 2024 Sagol Network GerOmic Award for Junior Faculty for her -omics research that focuses on mitochondrial transcripts and their potential as a metric of aging in RNA-sequencing data.
Omics is a rapidly evolving, multidisciplinary area of scientific study that encompasses genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and other -omics. It focuses on the collective characterization and quantification of pools of biological molecules that translate into the structure, function and dynamics of an organism or organisms.
The $150,000 Sagol Network GerOmic Award is given to junior faculty committed to pursuing a career in the field of aging research and GerOmics, which focuses on biological versus chronological aging of animals and humans, comparative -omics in animals with different lifespans, and the omics of aging-related interventions and therapeutics.
