The Institute on Aging hosted its 2023 Mary and Joseph A. Pignolo, Sr. Award and Lectureship in Aging Research on Monday, June 26, 2023. This year’s awardee was Paras Minhas, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, in recognition of his 2021 paper, "Restoring metabolism of myeloid cells reverses cognitive decline in ageing," published in Nature.
Much of Dr. Minhas’ work focuses on studying how macrophages and microglia can be metabolically reprogrammed to elicit healthy responses in the context of neuroinflammatory diseases. His full lecture “Metabolic Reprogramming on Innate Immune Cells Reverses Cognitive Decline in Aging” is available to view here.
About the Award
The Mary and Joseph A. Pignolo, Sr. Award and Lectureship in Aging Research is awarded as part of the Institute on Aging (IOA) Visiting Scholar series to annually recognize an outstanding contribution to the field of biogerontology. Created by geriatrician and gerontologist Robert J. Pignolo, M.D., Ph.D. in honor of his mother and father, award recipients are invited to present a lecture highlighting their work in basic aging research and receive a prize to recognize their exceptional contributions.