Glenn S. Gerhard, MD, Joseph and Rebecca Goodfriend Endowed Chair and Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, was one of the winners of the inaugural round of the Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards, which were recently announced by the National Academy of Medicine. The Catalyst Awards called on teams and individuals to submit innovative ideas with the goal of extending the human healthspan. Each Catalyst Award-winner will receive $50,000 as seed funding to advance their ideas. Dr. Gerhard’s submission was titled the “Centenarian Species Genomes Project.” News-Medical-net highlighted the news.
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