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Please reach out to Andrea@afar.org if would like to participate in any of these groups.
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NIA Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology Newsletter
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NIA Launches 2026 Mentorship Prize Competition
The National Institute on Aging is launching a new prize competition on August 17, 2026 to recognize excellence in aging research mentorship. The competition will award $100,000 each for up to six outstanding faculty mentors — three in the Early Career category and three in the Midcareer/Established category — for a total prize pool of $600,000. Current and former trainees can nominate NIA-funded mentors who shaped their careers through October 15, 2026. Mentors with two or more nominations who meet eligibility requirements will then be invited to participate in the prize competition and complete a submission by November 23, 2026. Winners will be announced the week of April 12, 2027. Full details and submission forms are available on NIH's Challenges and Prize Competitions page
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Behavioral Intervention Research Training Opportunities
NIA is currently funding the development of two short-course trainings in behavioral intervention research using the NIH Stage Model. Broadly, the NIH Stage Model is a systematic framework that encourages developing interventions defined by their principles as a way to maximize real-world implementation. The Stage Model is non-prescriptive in almost every way, so it is compatible with any reasonable theory, study design, and statistical plan, and generally compatible with other intervention development frameworks, especially as implementation frameworks are increasingly emphasizing causal mechanisms (e.g., core elements, function vs. form). Both short-course trainings are designed for doctoral-level, early- to mid-career investigators conducting or preparing to conduct behavioral intervention research. In their current forms, the two training programs select a cohort of scholars from a competitive application process, and cohorts meet virtually for didactic training and hands-on course work led by distinguished faculty.
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- Information about the STAGE Trials program led by Northwell Health can be found here.
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Information about the Columbia University Behavioral Intervention Development Winter 2026 training can be found by contacting the team here: bidtrainingprogram@cumc.columbia.edu.
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Funding & Career Opportunities |
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KDARC Pilot Funding Opportunity in Geriatric Nephrology
LOI Deadline: August 7, 2026
The Kidney Disease and Aging Research Collaborative (KDARC) is excited to announce a new opportunity to apply for pilot funding to support innovative projects aligned with geriatric nephrology research priorities. KDARC will award four 1-year pilot grants across two funding rounds (two in January 2027 and two in January 2028), with $15,000 per award. A letter of intent is due August 7. Please reach out to Ilana at ilana.mittleman@nyulangone.org with any questions.
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ASCENT 2026 Research Scholar Award
Deadline: August 10, 2026
The ASCENT Research Scholar Award is ideal for junior faculty seeking to establish themselves as independent investigators in palliative care research. The award provides protected time, mentorship, and training to help scholars develop competitive research programs and transition to larger, extramurally funded grants.
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ASCENT 2026 Pilot and Exploratory Studies Award
Deadline: August 10, 2026
The ASCENT Pilot and Exploratory Studies Award is ideal for researchers seeking to build foundational evidence that can lead to larger, externally funded studies. Whether you're an early-career investigator transitioning from a K to an R award, or a mid-career researcher exploring new directions, the ASCENT Consortium provides the resources, mentorship, and community to help you succeed.
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IMPACT Collaboratory: James L. Rudolph Career Development Award Program
Deadline: September 10, 2026
The IMPACT Collaboratory will fund up to two career development awards annually. These awards are designed to support the development of early-stage investigators (MD, PhD, or equivalent) whose long-term career goals are centered on conducting ePCTs to improve care for PLWD and their care partners.
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McKnight Clinical Translational Research Scholarship in Cognitive Aging
Deadline: September 10, 2026
The McKnight Brain Research Foundation will provide two 2-year scholarships of $65,000 per year, plus a $10,000 per year stipend to support education and research-related costs for early-career investigators pursuing studies relevant to age-related cognitive decline and memory loss.
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Early Career Flexible, High Value Pilot RFA
Deadline: September 14, 2026
The Pepper OAIC Coordinating Center is seeking proposals for a type of application that allows maximal flexibility and creativity. In the 1-page applications, proposers will explain how their proposed use of the funds (up to $5,000) will help advance the applicant’s career and build cross-center collaboration.
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Early Career Travel Exchange Program RFA
Deadline: September 14, 2026
The OAIC Coordinating Center is offering an inter-OAIC exchange opportunity in the coming year. Career-development can be enhanced by the early development of collaborative, professional networks, and exposure to an array of conceptual viewpoints and operational methods beyond those available at a single institution.
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ASU Roybal 2026-2027 Call for Trials
Deadline: October 1, 2026
The ASU Roybal Center seeks applications to conduct NIH Stage IB–IV randomized controlled clinical trials of mechanism of behavioral change (MoBC)-driven, technology-enabled behavioral and lifestyle interventions for older adults living alone with cognitive decline.
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2026 Awards Supported by the San Antonio Nathan Shock Center
Rolling Deadline
The San Antonio Nathan Shock Center is soliciting applications to support the research of any investigator who is developing a new project in the basic biology of aging. Awards will be made beginning September 1, 2026, but can be made at any time after that date. Applicants should contact core leaders as soon as possible in advance of that date.
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Grant Opportunity Forecasted: Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging
Deadline: TBD
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) intends to publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to renew the Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists' Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) program. The GEMSSTAR program provides support for early-career physician-scientists trained in medical or surgical specialties and early-career dentist-scientists in launching careers as future leaders in aging- or geriatric-focused research. As such, the program seeks applicants who aspire to continue or shift their research focus to bridge their specialty/discipline and the clinical care of older adults. In support of the program's goal, this NOFO invites applications that propose to conduct transdisciplinary aging research that will yield pilot data and experience for subsequent aging research projects.
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Grant Opportunity Forecasted: Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists' Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR)
Deadline: TBD
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) intends to publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to renew the Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists' Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) program. The GEMSSTAR program provides support for early-career physician-scientists trained in medical or surgical specialties and early-career dentist-scientists in launching careers as future leaders in aging- or geriatric-focused research. As such, the program seeks applicants who aspire to continue or shift their research focus to bridge their specialty/discipline and the clinical care of older adults. In support of the program's goal, this NOFO invites applications that propose to conduct transdisciplinary aging research that will yield pilot data and experience for subsequent aging research projects.
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NINR’s Early-Stage Investigator Lecture: Advancing Palliative Cancer Care
August 5, 2:00-3:00 pm ET | Virtual
This will be a virtual presentation where Dr. Rachel Pozzar will provide insights from her research focused on optimizing patient-centered communication and shared decision making to improve ovarian cancer care and health-related quality of life among people living with cancer. Dr. Pozzar will be joined by Dr. Abraham Brody, Assistant Dean for Transformational Excellence in Aging, Mathy Mezey Professor of Geriatric Nursing, Professor of Nursing and Medicine, NYU, who will serve as the discussant/moderator.
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NIH Fifth Geroscience Summit: Revisiting the Geroscience Hypothesis: Focus on Health
December 2-3, 2026 | Bethesda, MD & Virtual
Geroscience is a rapidly evolving field of research that aims to improve healthy lifespan by examining and targeting fundamental aging pathways to prevent, delay, or treat common age-associated conditions and diseases. Since 2012, the trans-NIH Geroscience Interest Group (GSIG) has played an important role in advancing geroscience research, in part by hosting summits that explore the state-of-the-science. The fifth Geroscience Summit will be an opportunity to assess progress toward addressing the development and execution of geroscience-based clinical trials, treating multimorbidity with geroscience-based interventions, validating and utilizing biomarkers of aging in geroscience research, and facilitating more effective communication around geroscience across stakeholder groups. For more information, contact Siobhan Addie (siobhan.addie@nih.gov; 202-253-6015).
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This communication is managed by the American Federation for Aging Research, which serves as the National Program Office for the Clin-STAR Coordinating Center. The Clin-STAR Coordinating Center is funded by the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging under award number U24AG065204. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the funder.
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