Wei-Wen Chen was awarded a $10,000 Collaborative Research Travel Grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for his project entitled:  Interrogation of the Mechanistic Links between Fat Metabolism and Aging by Broadband Raman Spectral Imaging. Wei-Wen plans to use the award to support a three-month visit to Kaveh Ashrafi’s lab at UCSF to learn genetic modification techniques for C. elegans. Professor Ashrafi’s lab uses C. elegans in leading edge of aging and lipid meetabolism.