August 2024 Updates

Clin-STAR & Beeson Annual Meetings

Travel Award Applications Open!

2024 Clin-STAR Annual Meeting Travel Awards


Clin-STAR is offering up to 10 travel awards to early-stage clinician-scientists who could benefit from the opportunities provided by the Clin-STAR Annual Meeting. The travel award (up to $2000 per person) is intended to cover travel to and from the meeting, meeting meals and hotel accommodations. Applicants across clinical disciplines and specialties who conduct transdisciplinary basic, translational or clinical aging research are eligible.

The deadline to apply is September 4, 2024. For more information and to apply, view the RFA here.
View RFA here

2024 Beeson Annual Meeting Travel Awards


The Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award Program is offering up to 6 travel awards to early stage clinically-trained investigators who could benefit from the opportunities provided by the Beeson Annual Meeting and who could potentially enhance and diversify (by institution, discipline, personal background, etc.) the Beeson Scholars pool in the future. The travel award (up to $2,000 per person) is intended to cover travel to and from the meeting, and hotel accommodation. 

The deadline to apply is September 4, 2024. For more information and to apply, view the RFA here.
View RFA here

Upcoming Clin-STAR Webinar!
Learn more and register here

Clin-STAR Office Hours

September 5, 4-5pm ET

Sara Espinoza, MD, MSc

Topics for discussion could include:

  • Frailty research
  • Translational geroscience
  • Career development



Three 20-minute spots available. Register here.
Register for Upcoming Office Hours

Funding Opportunities
McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss
 August 12, 2024
The McKnight Brain Research Foundation and AFAR will provide up to two 3-year awards of $750,000 (USD) each.
2024 WashU Medicine Bold Pioneer Award
September 1, 2024
The goal of this $10,000 award is to recognize and encourage early career investigators who have demonstrated bold, pioneering research that is high-risk by virtue of being fundamentally different from standard approaches. 
NIA Funding Opportunities Listing
All of NIA's most recent notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) and other related notices.

Upcoming Events
2024 Evidence to Impact Workshop: Integrating Research on Aging into Health Systems
 September 23-25, 2024 | Chicago, IL & Virtual
This 2-day workshop will advance the science and practice of implementation and innovation to improve the care and outcomes of older adults. Hosted this year by Northwestern University, the workshop will thematically focus on implementing evidence-based care models in primary care, outpatient clinics and community-based settings.
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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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