The National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.866), awarded a $529,650 Project Grant to The Scintillon Institute to develop a comprehensive platform for thermal imaging in a controlled environment to study age-related changes in physical activity energy expenditure and other biomarkers of aging in rodent animal models. The project will involve longitudinal monitoring and analysis of young, middle-aged, and old mice to determine how aging affects these physiological parameters. The grant will also fund the creation of a deep learning-based system for rapid, robust thermal image analysis and mouse identification to enable the study of social aspects of aging. This novel, cost-effective platform is expected to advance the testing of candidate drugs and interventions for age-related diseases and enable comprehensive behavioral and physiological phenotyping in mouse models.
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