Baylor College of Medicine News Release
The National Institutes of Health will award up to $4 million over five years to a consortium including Baylor College of Medicine, the Tulane National Primate Research Center and the California National Primate Research Center to establish a coordinating center for research on aging. This award underscores the leadership of these three organizations in advancing understanding of aging across primate species, information that could unlock new ways to improve human health and longevity.
Led by Dr. Jay Rappaport, director of the Tulane National Primate Research Center, Dr. Jeffrey Rogers of Baylor College of Medicine, and Dr. John Morrison of University of California at Davis, the aging coordinating center will bring together results from aging-related research across humans and nonhuman primates. The Tulane primate center will serve as the project lead.
“We at Baylor College of Medicine are excited to play this important role in advancing knowledge of the processes that influence healthy aging and lifespan,” said Rogers, associate professor in the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor. “Nonhuman primates provide a natural experiment in lifespan extension. The comparisons among species that this program is designed to support will increase our understanding of some basic elements of aging. In that way we will generate new insights that we hope will translate into improved health and well-being in humans.”