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Navigating two professional societies: challenges and opportunities
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- Expertise in functional decline and resilience with aging, geriatric assessment, cancer, and anemia
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Upcoming Interest Group Events |
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R01/R21 Grant Writing Group – May/June review session
The next review session will be scheduled in May or June. If you are interested in presenting draft grant materials (e.g., aims, partially or fully written grant, resubmission, etc.) for group review, please complete this sign-up form. Scheduling decisions will prioritize the first 4 researchers who sign up with compatible availability. This will be a 2-hour session, similar to a mock study section, in which everyone is expected to review each other’s materials in advance and participate for the entire session.
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Social Determinants of Health Research Group
Friday, May 8, 12-1 pm ET: Recruitment Strategies in Different Communities with Ayo Bankole, PhD, RN, David Camacho, PhD, MSW, MSG, and Angela Groves, PhD, RN-BC, CNE
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VA Research Interest Group
May 28, 3 pm ET: Join Una Makris, MD, MSc and Clark DuMontier, MD for a debrief from the AGS Annual Meeting, including updates from the session on 'Age Friendly Healthcare Initiatives in the VA'
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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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Recent Clin-STAR Webinar Recording |
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The learning objectives of this webinar were to:
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- Provide an overview of NIH grant funding process
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Describe recent policy and program updates from NIH/NIA
- Discuss changes to NIH peer review
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Share Your Ideas for NIH's New Strategic Plan
NIH is seeking public input on a framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2027–2031 through a newly issued request for information (RFI), NOT-OD-26-047. This RFI provides an opportunity for the extramural research community to help inform NIH’s highest-level priorities and goals. Feedback is due May 26, 2026. Read more...
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ASCENT Consortium Updates |
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ASCENT Consortium News Corner:
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Funding & Career Opportunities |
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NIA Expanding Research in AD/ADRD (ERA) Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program
Deadline: May 27, 2026
The overarching goal of this National Institute on Aging (NIA) R25 program is to support educational activities that compliment and/or enhance training opportunities to ensure a workforce that is well prepared to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs, help recruit individuals with specific specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to research careers in biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences and foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral and clinical research and its implications.
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Grant Opportunity Forecasted: Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging
Estimated Deadline: June 13, 2026
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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Early Career Reviewer (ECR) Program
Rolling Deadline
The program aims to help early career scientists become more competitive as grant applicants through first-hand experience with peer review and to enrich CSR’s pool of trained reviewers in terms of experience and other merit-based factors.
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This workshop will be held virtually and in-person in Bethesda, MD. View the current draft agenda here. Virtual registration is free and open to the public, and accessible here. The deadline to register is May 19 at 9am ET.
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Advances in Geroscience
May 21, 2026 | Bethesda, MD & Virtual
The NIH Geroscience Interest Group will host Dr. Anna Marsland, University of Pittsburgh, to discuss “Psychosocial factors and central and peripheral markers of biological aging from mid-to-later life”.
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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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