June 14, 2008
Laura Bonifacio, PharmD, a third-year graduate student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received an American Foundation for Aging Research-GlaxoSmithKline Fellowship for the 2008-09 academic year.
The award is worth $2,000 and is potentially renewable. It will fund Bonifacio’s research project, which is involved in discovering the physiological mechanisms of aging.
“Aging is interesting and poorly understood,” Bonifacio says. “We are looking for new cellular agents that are involved in controlling the aging process or that are controlled by the aging process. This will allow a richer understanding of aging and lead to new ways to control it at the cellular level. That knowledge could have biotechnology and therapeutics applications.”
Bonifacio earned her doctor of pharmacy at the School and entered the PhD program in 2006. She is in the lab of Associate Professor Michael Jarstfer, PhD, in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products.
The AFAR supports the study of aging and mechanisms of age-related disease by providing startup grants to early-career scientists.
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