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Career development advice including how to network for career advancement and how to build a leadership portfolio
- Expertise in unhealthy substance use, healthy aging, gerontechnology, health equity, and social behavioral research in ADRD
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Clin-STAR VA Research Interest Group - State of Age-Friendly Care in VA Survey
If you work at a VA, we would love to hear from you!
On the heels of the VA Age-Friendly State of the Art Conference (SOTA), there is momentum to learn more about how age-friendly care is implemented and evaluated at the VA, in primary care as well as specialty care, and in research.
The Clin-Star VA SIG is the ideal forum to learn from each other how we can improve age-friendly for our Veterans. We would like to discuss and learn how you assess and act on, or evaluate age-friendly concepts in your field, at your facility. The questions are intentionally broad, please select the topics that are most relevant to your work and that speak to you.
State of Age-Friendly Care in VA- From Clin-STAR VA SIG – please complete form
Responses will be used to begin to collate the State of Age-Friendly care at VA with the overall goals of:
1. Highlighting the great work already being done within VA.
2. Inspiring clinical + research innovations and collaborations that will improve the care of our Veterans.
Please complete this survey by Feb 3rd in order to collate responses and inform our discussion ahead of our February 6 meeting. If you would like to join, contact Andrea@afar.org
**Please feel free to forward to your colleagues at the VA if we missed someone who would like to join this SIG!
Thank you for your time.
Co-chairs: Una Makris, MD, MSc and Katie Wysham, MD
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Upcoming Interest Group Events
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Large Data Research Group
Thursday, February 5, 1-2 pm ET: Synthesizing interests and resources for collaboration
Thursday, March 26, 1-2 pm ET: Informing Clinical Practice with European Data with Dr. Luca Soraci, Chair of the Big Data Special Interest Group, European Geriatric Medicine Society
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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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GeriPal Podcast: Inflammaging - featuring Clin-STAR Inflammation Research Group researchers, Drs. Sara LaHue, Brian Andonian, and Joe Hippensteel
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Please share suggestions for podcasts that may be open to guest researchers in aging with Clin-STAR staff.
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NIH’s Implementation of Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support for Due Dates on or after January 25, 2026
This Guide Notice provides details for the Common Forms, NIH Biographical Sketch Supplement, and instructions required for use for application due dates and Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR) submissions on or after January 25, 2026. Learn more here.
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Researchers - filter by discipline, research areas, funded grants, and interest in mentoring
- Institutions – find others in your institution involved with aging research and Clin-STAR
- Publications - by other members with “recent publication” filters
- Clin-STAR Network - interactive graphics display past co-authorships and connections by disciplines, publications, and research areas
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If you haven't already, please create a researcher profile on the Clin-STAR Researcher Database!
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Clin-STAR R01/R21 Grant Writing Group |
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The goal of the Clin-STAR R01/R21 Grant Writing Group is to develop a supportive community that will help current and former Beeson awardees and other clinician scientists interested in aging research to develop successful R-level grant applications. Each month, those who are interested in presenting can submit a grant at any stage of development (aims page, partially or fully written grant, resubmission, etc).
The next review session will be held in March. If you're interested in presenting draft grant materials (e.g., aims) for group review, please complete this sign up form.. Scheduling decisions will prioritize the first four people with compatible availability. This will be a two-hour session in which everyone is expected to review each other’s materials.
If any questions, please contact andrea@afar.org
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Funding & Career Opportunities |
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The goal of the NIA’s Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) is to bring together researchers from the 7 NIA Centers programs to foster the development of cross-center collaborations around issues important to the health and well-being of older adults. The RCCN's fourteenth workshop, “Multidisciplinary Research in Aging/Team Science”, will be held May 20-21, 2026, in Bethesda, Maryland. The scope of the workshop is broad and includes these themes: Multidisciplinary Teams, Early Translation, Multidisciplinary Communities/Geroscience, and Tools and Barriers in Multidisciplinary Research.
Travel Awards are available for approximately 10 early career investigators or investigators in-training, who will participate in a special session on May 20, that will focus on career development. The travel awards will cover travel to and from the meeting, meals, and hotel accommodations.
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I-REACH Scholar Program
Deadline: February 6, 2026
The national two-year Scholar Program, co-led by Dr. Peter Lichtenberg and Dr. Chiranjeev Dash, will identify and enroll Scholars at the bridges to the doctorate/pre-doctoral level through early-stage and senior scientists (the latter looking to shift career focus) at our hubs and liaison sites. Scholars will be matched with two I-REACH mentors who will advise them during the Program.
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Grant Opportunity Forecasted: Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists' Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR)
Estimated Deadline: February 16, 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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Aging Gene Discovery (AGeD) Collaborative NSC Pilot Awards
Deadline: March 23, 2026
The goal of this program is to identify new genes and gene networks that control aging and age-associated disease processes. Early-stage investigators focusing on aging and/or geroscience research (the latter as the study of processes linking aging to the etiology of age-associated dysfunction and disease) or senior investigators initiating new research programs in aging/geroscience research are encouraged to apply. Awards will typically range from $38,000 to $75,000, depending on the complexity of the project and reagent costs, among other factors.
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NIA Expanding Research in AD/ADRD (ERA) Summer Research Education Program
Deadline: April 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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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) that uses the NIH Emerging Leaders Career Development Award to administer the Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging program. This NOFO invites early-stage physicians and other health professional investigators with a commitment to aging and/or aging-related diseases to apply for this award with the goal of advancing their research and leadership skills in their specialty and in the broader field of aging and geriatrics research.
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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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