Yan Li is Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity

The National Institutes of Health is funding a $1.8-million project led by Yan Li, a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity and a researcher at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, that will use artificially grown, simplified mini-organs to create medicine that targets brain cells damaged by stroke.

Matthew “Jake” Martenson has won the Institute for Successful Longevity’s 2022 Student Poster Day competition.

Martenson is a student of Dr. Judy Delp of the College of Medicine and Dr. Lynn Panton of the College of Health and Human Sciences.

Martenson’s presentation was titled “Stretching with Ankle Dorsiflexion Splint Improves Measures of Microvascular Reactivity and Oxygen Extraction in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease.”

Amy Mullins, a doctoral candidate in Nutrition and Integrative Physiology and winner of the Esther & Del Grosser Scholarship, with her major professor, Bahram H. Arjmandi

You are invited to join university researchers and community experts in a workshop on “Bridging Resilience Divides: Technology, Transportation, and Communications,” April 14-16 at Florida State University’s Turnbull Center.

If you missed Bradley Gordon’s talk on “How Does Testosterone Really Make My Muscles Bigger: Implications for Aging,” you can now watch it here, via ISL’s YouTube Channel.

Walter Boot, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, has been chosen to be Associate Director of the Institute for Successful Longevity.

Carla Prado, Ph.D., R.D., of the University of Alberta will speak March 3 on “Body Composition in Aging: More than Meets the Eye” in a talk for researchers and the public.

Dr. JR Harding, Ed.D., a Teaching Faculty II in the College of Business and an author, speaker and advocate, has joined the Institute for Successful Longevity as a Faculty Affiliate.