NIA Beeson and GEMSSTAR NOFOs released! |
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2026 Deadline: November 10
You'll see the following updates from previous versions:
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- Beeson does not allow clinical trials
- GEMSSTAR eligibility expanded to all clinical doctoral degrees
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| Wednesday, September 16, 2-3pm ET
Angela L. Jefferson, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Director of Vanderbilt Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Vanderbilt Health
Topics for discussion could include:
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- Career development advice
- Expertise in neuroscience, cognitive impairment and AD/ADRD
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Upcoming Interest Group Events |
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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
To subscribe, email NIADGCGinquiries@nih.gov and indicate “subscribe to newsletter”.
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NIA Launches 2026 Mentorship Prize Competition
The National Institute on Aging is launching a new prize competition 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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NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Programs
The NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) are designed to recruit and retain highly qualified health professionals into biomedical or biobehavioral research careers. For the upcoming cycle, Extramural LRP applicants will choose from three subcategories, which are designed to make it easier to identify which pathway fits their research and apply with greater clarity. Applications for fiscal year 2027 Extramural LRP awards will be accepted from September 1 until November 19, 2026. Find more information about the NIH LRPs.
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NIH Career Development Programs
The following two recent NIH Guide Notices have implications for career development and training.
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NOT-OD-26-098: Notice of NIH Updates to Career Development (K) Award Programs
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NOT-OD-26-095: Request for Information (RFI): Input on Potential NIH Funding Approaches to Support the Development of Future Clinical Trial Investigators (Response deadline: September 30, 2026)
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Funding & Career Opportunities |
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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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USDeN Pilot Awards
LOI Deadline: September 18, 2026
The pilot award supports research related to deprescribing that provides key preliminary data, proof of concept, or developmental work that offers a clear pathway to future, larger-scale studies and career development for the investigators involved. This award is geared primarily, but not exclusively, toward junior investigators. All topics related to deprescribing in older adults are welcome.
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Cornell Roybal Behavioral Intervention Development Funding Opportunity
Deadline: October 1, 2026
The Translational Research Institute on Pain in Later Life (TRIPLL) announces a behavioral intervention development grant program, designed to support social and behavioral clinical trials that will test non-pharmacological pain and pain management interventions in later life. TRIPLL will award up to $310,000 in total costs (direct and indirect costs) in the first year, however a second year may also be requested (pending NIA funding decisions and depending on the stage of the trial proposed).
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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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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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