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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Dear ISL Affiliates,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">The Institute for Successful Longevity has awarded 2024 ISL Planning Grants to ISL’s Affiliate faculty members, Dr. Fengfeng Ke, Dr. Joseph Watso
of the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences, and Dr. Qing-Xiang Sang of the College of Arts and Sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Dr. Ke will be working alongside Co-PI Dr. Xin Yuan of the Department of Computer Science. Dr. Wasto will work with Co-PI Dr. Kyle Smith of the
College of College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences. Dr. Sang will work with Co-PI Dr. Yi Zhou of the College of Medicine. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">The ISL Planning Grants provides $25,000 in funding for research in a new direction or continuing support of existing research with the goal
of improving the opportunity for successful longevity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">In Dr. Fengfeng Ke’s project titled “Develop and Study AI-powered Culturally Diverse Virtual Standardized Patient for Training Healthcare Professional
Students”, the study team will develop and study AI-powered Culturally Diverse Virtual Standardized Patients for training healthcare professional students and address significant challenges in the current healthcare education landscape. By integrating advanced
AI and virtual reality (VR) technologies, the project promises to enhance training effectiveness, access, and cultural diversity sensitivity and address both the limitations of current physical standardized patient models and the need for scalable, diverse
training tools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">In Dr. Joseph Watson’s project titled “Does Aging Augment Acute Kidney Injury and Inflammatory Biomarker Responses to Dehydration and Ambient
Heat Stress?”, the research team will investigate how aging influences inflammation and AKI biomarkers after dehydration from water restriction by comparing young and older female adults and determine if AKI biomarkers are elevated during the summer in older
female adults living in Tallahassee and surrounding areas in Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">In Dr. Qing-Xiang Sang’s project titled “Effects of Microplastics on Human Neural Stem Cell Aging”, researchers will evaluate the effects of
microplastics on human neural stem cell morphology and growth, investigate the impact of microplastic-induced oxidative stress on mitochondrial health, and examine aging-related cellular hallmarks and intercellular messenger production. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Congratulations to all the winners of 2024 ISL Planning Grants and thank you to ISL’s grant reviewers for their thoughtful evaluations!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Zhe He, PhD, FAMIA <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Interim Director, Institute for Successful Longevity
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Associate Professor, School of Information, College of Communication and Information <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Director, eHealth Lab </span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fehealthlab.cci.fsu.edu%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cisl%40lists.fsu.edu%7Cb46477a506084490470408dc7a941d18%7Ca36450ebdb0642a78d1b026719f701e3%7C0%7C0%7C638520023770880909%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ZBzYoxKtk8OJEzL5V4H62%2BoDuQsSIsNpwSYyPFR7BWU%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://ehealthlab.cci.fsu.edu/" shash="Tx+eBU4R7MU9VMww3kPY6NZRvLuU8JfgBFfmrDk4jJi0WEKoMfA2eNBznXOtk3Ps40KXaFqTHaS+Xulb1UHFtrIySpqsZksiH+TpB7erXgaHyQzv1qaQ1Q85JtecBY/4duJKmEjTDkD8yXA2PAWEdIEKc+zdl2TpRPfVwRrAI7Q=" title="https://ehealthlab.cci.fsu.edu/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0078D7;mso-ligatures:none">https://ehealthlab.cci.fsu.edu/</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
Director of Biostatistics, Informatics, and Research Design Program (BIRD) of UF-FSU CTSA Hub<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Florida State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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