Project description
The role of T cells in age-related diseases
Ageing commences at the molecular and cellular level and eventually culminates with physiological changes and dysregulation that cause morbidities. Emerging evidence indicates that the immune system and, in particular, T cells play a critical role in accelerating age-related health conditions by promoting inflammation. Funded by the European Research Council, the Let T Be project focuses on the metabolism of T cells during ageing and the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that influence it and lead to senescence. Results are expected to serve as the foundation for the design of new strategies to improve healthy ageing.
Objective
With the increase in human life expectancy, there is an urgent need to understand the common molecular pathways by which aging results in a progressively higher susceptibility to chronic morbidity, disability, and frailty. In the last years, immunometabolism has emerged as a new field to boost immune responses for cancer immunotherapies as well as to dampen autoimmune diseases. A recent discovery from my lab has revealed the critical role of T cell metabolism in accelerating the onset of age-associated diseases and multimorbidity. This finding has opened a new path to investigate the diverse T cell intrinsic and external stimuli that instruct T cell differentiation towards a dysfunctional state during aging, with the final goal of designing effective strategies to promote healthy aging. LetTBe will address the hypothesis that the time-dependent deterioration of T lymphocytes contributes not only to immunosenescence but also to the general aging process. The LetTBe project proposes to use multidisciplinary approaches to target age-associated T cells for preventing inflammaging, senescence and age-associated multimorbidity. Our central goals are: 1) To define age-associated T cells heterogeneity with special focus in their cellular origin, clonality, metabolic vulnerabilities and transcriptomic signatures; 2) To decode the environmental signals that are imprinted on age-associated T cells and contribute to their development; 3) To identify new strategies to targeting age-associated T cells for slowing down immunosenescence, and for boosting resilience to inflammaging, systemic senescence and age-related multimorbidity. In sum, LetTBe puts forward an ambitious but feasible program with the wide purpose of understanding the specific molecular mechanisms and metabolic requirements of age-associated T cells, with the final goal to guide new strategies to improve healthy aging.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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28006 MADRID
Spain
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