Associate Professor Ayuko Hoshino Receives NAM Healthy Longevity QuickFire Challenge Award

We are honored to receive the Accelerator Award from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). This award is sponsored by companies and organizations from around the world that have supported the NAM to select applications from Catalyst Award winners and present them as Accelerator Awards. This year, Johnson & Johnson Innovation selected five awardees of their Healthy Longevity 2022 QuickFire Challenge, including our team, selected from last year's Catalyst Awards.

Our team members are, Dr. Lav Varshney from University of Illinois, expertise in AI; Dr. Alexandru Hanganu from University of Montreal, expertise in Alzheimer's disease imaging and machine learning; and myself, Ayuko Hoshino, specialized in exosome biology. Our proposal aims to identify the exosomal information in blood circulation for defining age trajectory and whether we can use this exosomal information for predicting age-related diseases, such as dementia. This interdisciplinary research project has broadened my lab's understanding and capability, and I am very excited about our future development.