August 2024 Updates

WORKSHOP: CLIMATE CHANGE AND AGING 

Travel Award Applications Due Monday, August 19!

This meeting will be held in Seattle, WA in conjunction with the Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting. The scope of the workshop includes these themes: Exposures, Vulnerabilities, Interventions to Cope with Climate Change, and Intermediary Between Disaster and the Health Outcomes. A draft agenda for this workshop is available here.
Travel Awards are available for approximately 10 early career investigators or investigators in training, who will also participate in a special session following the meeting on November 13, that will focus on career development. Applications for this award are due by Monday, August 19, 2024.
View Travel Award RFA here

RCCN PILOT AWARDS

Upcoming LOI Deadline!

View RFA here

WORKSHOP: NUTRITION AND AGING BIOLOGY

Recordings Now Available!

Thank you to all who joined us at the RCCN Workshop "Nutrition and Aging Biology" in San Francisco, CA! Recordings and slides from this meeting are available on the RCCN website now.
View slides and recordings here

RCCN SPRING 2024 WEBINAR SERIES

ALL RECORDINGS NOW AVAILABLE!

Watch recordings here

UPCOMING EVENTS

This meeting will discuss collaborative approaches for increasing racial/ethnic composition of EL cohorts, including possible study design considerations, identification of core variables to be collected across diverse populations and more.
Pepper Center Rounds: Rightsizing burdens and benefits of health care for older adults
August 16, 2024 at 12pm CT | Virtual
Featuring a presentation by Dr. Ishani Ganguli, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
 
CLARiTI Webinar: Visual Reads & PET Scan Processes
August 28, 2024 at 1pm ET | Virtual
This hour-long webinar will give brief study updates about CLARiTI followed by an overview from our Visual Reads Core about PET imaging processes.
Building Silos: Diverse Key Partner Perspectives on Leveraging AI to Improve the Care of Older Adults
September 6, 2024 from 12-4pm ET | Baltimore, MD
This free event will serve as a collaborative forum for discussing the intersection of artificial intelligence, healthcare, and aging.
Research to Impact: Translating Your Findings for Clinical and Consumer Audiences
September 11, 2024 at 3pm ET | Virtual
This Clin-STAR webinar aims to help participants learn about a strategic communications framework that can guide a variety of engagement and outreach activities and understand how a variety of communications activities can help position researchers as thought leaders.
Aging and Microbiome Meeting (AMC) 2024 
October 22 - 23, 2024 | Jena, Germany
This conference will cover an emerging field that brings together the intricate process of aging and the dynamic interactions between the host and its microbiome.
RCCN Workshop: Climate Change and Aging
November 12, 2024 | Seattle, WA & Virtual
The eleventh RCCN workshop will be held in conjunction with the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting.
GSA 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting
November 13-16, 2024 at 1pm ET | Seattle, WA
Join GSA for the premier annual scientific meeting for cutting-edge scholarship, research, and networking relating to the fields of aging and gerontology.
RCCN Symposium at GSA 2024: Fostering Multidisciplinary Solutions in Aging
November 15, 2024 from 8-9:30 am PT | Seattle, WA
This symposium will present key learnings from the work of five RCCN pilot teams.
MobiCom4AgeTech Workshop
November 18, 2024 | Washington, DC
This workshop will gather leading minds to explore challenges and opportunities at the intersection of wireless and mobile computing, AI and data analytics, and technologies for supporting healthy aging. The workshop is seeking demo and poster abstracts (due by Sept. 13).
a2 National Symposium
April 3-4, 2025 | Boston, MA
The annual a2 National Symposium convenes innovators, academics, and industry leaders to accelerate progress and collaboration in AI/tech and aging.
 

FUNDING & CAREER DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss
Deadline: August 12, 2024
Aiming to identify emerging scientific leaders to advance transformative research in the cognitive aging field, the MBRF and the American Federation for Aging Research are offering up to two 3-year awards of $750,000 each to Advanced Assistant Professors and recently appointed Associate Professors (MDs and PhDs).
GSA2024: Biological Sciences Diversity in Aging Scholar Travel Award
Deadline: August 29, 2024
GSA 2024 will gather researchers, clinicians, educators, and other professionals in the aging field from around the world to discuss the latest trends, research, and key issues.

2024 WashU Medicine Bold Pioneer Award
Deadline: 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.
McKnight Clinical Translational Research Scholarship in Cognitive Aging and Age-Related Memory Loss
Deadline: September 10, 2024
This award recognizes the importance of rigorous training in clinical research and encourage early-career investigators to establish future careers exploring human cognitive aging.
Hevolution Foundation Postdoctoral Training in Geroscience (HF-PTG) Program
Deadline: October 30, 2024
The Hevolution Foundation will provide funding for PhD and MD/PhD students who want to pursue postdoctoral research training in the biology of aging or geroscience.
View all funding & career development opportunities
Interested in learning more about any of the NIA centers programs? Looking for more detailed information on pilot funding, webinars, resources and more? Visit the coordinating center websites below.
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