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Shin-ichiro Imai, MD, PhD, Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology, has received a five-year, $1,612,664, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging grant award starting on May 1, 2019, for his project entitled “eNAMPT-mediated adipo-hypothalamic communication for NAD+ production and aging.”