Large Data Group

Thursday, October 1, 1-2 pm ET: project discussion

Palliative Care Research Interest Group

Monday, October 5, 4-5 pm ET

Perioperative Research Interest Group

Thursday, October 8, 4-5 pm ET 

Biology of Aging Research Interest Group

Tuesday, November 10, 3-4 pm ET: with guest Steven N. Austad, PhD

Please reach out to Andrea@afar.org if would like to participate in any of these groups.

We are dedicated to keeping the Clin-STAR community up-to-date with the newest updates, changes, and news out of the National Institute on Aging. That's why we've created the NIA Updates page on our website!

Be sure to regularly check out the new page for relevant news, calls for applications, events, and more.

"We just received a $1.1 million NIMH R56 award to conduct an RCT of our smartphone-based intervention delivered by Certified Older Adult Peer Specialists for older adults with serious mental illness and chronic health conditions. This is my first R-level award, and I’m incredibly grateful to Clin-STAR for funding the pilot and providing support and mentorship throughout. Clin-STAR truly helped make this possible!"

- Karen L. Fortuna, PhD, LICSW

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

2027 IMPACT Collaboratory Training Workshop
Deadline: October 20, 2026

The IMPACT Collaboratory holds an annual Training Workshop (to be held January 27-28, 2027) for early to mid-career researchers seeking to develop expertise in designing and conducting ePCTs of non-pharmacological interventions embedded in health care systems for PLWD and care partners.

The John A. Hartford Foundation New Partners Program
LOI Deadline: October 27, 2026

The John A. Hartford Foundation is pleased to announce a national call for proposals for initiatives advancing improvements in care for older adults. Up to 10 grants will be awarded, each for up to $300,000 over two years.

NIA IMPACT Collaboratory: 2027 Health Care Systems Scholars Program

LOI Deadline: November 5, 2026

The Health Care Systems Scholars Program fosters durable partnerships between investigators and health care systems, advances system-informed research priorities, and lays the groundwork for future embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) in dementia care. Awards are for up to $120,000 for 12 months.

Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists' Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR)
Deadline: November 10, 2026

The goal of the Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists' Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) program is to provide support for early-career clinician-scientists trained in medical or surgical specialties to launch careers as future leaders in aging- or geriatric-focused research.

Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging
Deadline: November 10, 2026

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is designed specifically for applicants proposing research that does not involve leading an independent clinical trial, a clinical trial feasibility study, or an ancillary clinical trial. Under this NOFO applicants are permitted to propose a research experience in a clinical trial led by a mentor or co-mentor.

Parkinson’s Foundation 2026-2027 Research Grants and Fellowships

The Parkinson’s Foundation 2026-2027 research grants and fellowships are now open! View the listing now.

ACGME Approved Geriatrics Program for Medical Students

Considering a career in Geriatrics? The AGS/ADGAP AIRE Medicine-Geriatrics Integrated Residency and Fellowship (Combined Med-Geri Pathway) trains geriatricians through a four-year (48-month) program that integrates fellowship-level geriatric clinical experiences into an internal medicine or family medicine residency — meeting full geriatric competencies without a separate fellowship year.

There are currently 20 programs that have a Combined Med-Geri Pathway in Internal Medicine available under the AIRE initiative, with a few pathways also offering Family Medicine programs, for the residency match in March 2027 with a start date in July 2027. The contact information for each program can be found here. For more information, please reach out to Jen Sicherman.

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).

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.