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Welcome to the University of Michigan Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research.

The U-M Glenn Center began operations in September 2014, with the generous support of the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, founded by Paul F. Glenn to "to extend the healthy productive years of life through research on the mechanisms of biological aging." The U-M Glenn Center is part of a consortium that is made up of seven distinguished research universities whose faculty members are making progress in understanding the biology of aging, and exploring ways to translate our growing knowledge about the aging process to benefit people as they grow older.

The U-M Glenn Center is headed by Richard A. Miller, a professor of Pathology and an expert on the use of mouse models to learn about control of lifespan, age-sensitive health outcomes, and how drugs, diets and genes regulate aging. In the Miller lab, Gonzalo Garcia directs a project on protein translation, and Xinna Li focuses on inflammation and adiposity. Other key U-M Glenn Center Faculty include Scott Pletcher (neural mechanisms of slow aging in flies), Scott Leiser (neural mechanisms of slow aging in C. elegans), Catherine Kaczorowski and Harpreet Kaur (aging and cognition), Zaneta Nikolovska-Coleska (PAPPA inhibitors), Matthias Truttmann (regulation of proteostasis), and Jun Hee Lee (spatial transcriptomics core). Longhua Guo has received our 2023-2024 pilot award for studies of stem cell rejuvenation in planarians. Please visit the Research page to find summaries of each of these projects.

Contact Us

For further information, please contact Center Director, Richard Miller at millerr@umich.edu, or Center Administrator, Ursula Kotzabassi at ursulak@umich.edu.