The National Institute on Aging may let funding lapse for a yearslong study of nearly 50,000 pet dogs, which could also offer insight into human health.
could still choose to provide more funding for the Dog Aging Project at some point, but if the researchers don’t bring in more money in the coming months, they will have to pause or pare back the study.
Still, the researchers are not counting on the agency to come to their rescue, and they have learned how challenging it is to conduct large, long-term studies — which could take many years to pay off — when grants are usually awarded on a short-term basis.
Dogs are prone to many of the same aging-related conditions people experience, including cancer and dementia, and are exposed to many of the same environmental stressors, such as air pollution and noise.
The researchers also aim to sequence the genomes of more than 10,000 dogs; 1,000 of those animals will also provide an array of biological samples — including blood, urine, feces and hair — every year.
They are also enrolling hundreds of dogs in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of rapamycin, a drug that has proved capable of extending the lives of lab animals.
But when the researchers sought a five-year grant renewal last year, their application did not score well enough in the first round of peer review to advance to the next stage of the funding process.
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could still choose to provide more funding for the Dog Aging Project at some point, but if the researchers don’t bring in more money in the coming months, they will have to pause or pare back the study.
Still, the researchers are not counting on the agency to come to their rescue, and they have learned how challenging it is to conduct large, long-term studies — which could take many years to pay off — when grants are usually awarded on a short-term basis.
Dogs are prone to many of the same aging-related conditions people experience, including cancer and dementia, and are exposed to many of the same environmental stressors, such as air pollution and noise.
The researchers also aim to sequence the genomes of more than 10,000 dogs; 1,000 of those animals will also provide an array of biological samples — including blood, urine, feces and hair — every year.
They are also enrolling hundreds of dogs in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of rapamycin, a drug that has proved capable of extending the lives of lab animals.
But when the researchers sought a five-year grant renewal last year, their application did not score well enough in the first round of peer review to advance to the next stage of the funding process.
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