April 2024 Updates

RCCN SPRING 2024 WEBINAR SERIES

UPCOMING WEBINAR

This webinar will discuss the K award review process, including an overview of peer review and information on how grants are scored. The presentation will also touch on how the review process has changed in recent years and may be particularly helpful to mentors supporting new applicants.

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RECORDINGS NOW AVAILABLE!

Career Development Awards at NIA/NIH
This webinar provided an overview of the different Mentored Career Development Awards (K) offered by NIA. 
Watch webinar recording here.
View webinar slides here.

Strategies for Preparing Strong Career Development Applications
This webinar shared tips and advice to help at every stage of preparing a K award application. 
Watch webinar recording here.
View webinar slides here.

View details on full webinar series here

PUBLICATIONS

NIA Research Centers Collaborative Network
Stephen Kritchevsky PhD, Odette van der Willik BA, Jay Magaziner PhD, Elizabeth Pritchett-Montavon MPA, Stephanie Lederman MEd
This paper is part of the Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Institute on Aging special collection for the May 2024 edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Perspective: Promoting Healthy Aging through Nutrition: A Research Centers Collaborative Network Workshop Report
M. Kyla Shea PhD, Larissa Strath PhD, Minjee Kim MD, Lan N. Ðoàn PhD, MPH, Sarah L. Booth PhD, Tina E. Brinkley PhD, Stephen B. Kritchevsky PhD 
Based on this RCCN Workshop.
Research Centers Collaborative Network Workshop on Digital Health Approaches to Research in Aging
Jason Fanning, PhD, Tina E Brinkley, PhD, Laura M Campbell, PhD, Cristina Colon-Semenza, PhD, Sara J Czaja, PhD, Raeanne C Moore, PhD, Nicholas M Pajewski, PhD, Stephen Kritchevsky, PhD
Based on this RCCN Workshop.

UPCOMING EVENTS

2024 Healthcare Systems Research Network Annual Conference
April 9-11, 2024
The Health Care Systems Research Network (HCSRN) unites a consortium of research centers based in community-based health delivery systems to bring you, “Advancing High Quality, Equitable Research in the age of New Health Care Technologies." 
PennAITech Webinar: "Large Language Models: Challenges and Opportunities" 
April 11, 2024 | 12pm ET
Featuring Mayur Naik, PhD, professor and graduate chair in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. 
 
Mass AITC Webinar: "Aligning Technology with Dementia Caregiver Needs”
April 30, 2024 | 3pm ET
Featuring Joseph E. Gaugler, PhD, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Robert L. Kane Endowed Chair in Long-Term Care and Aging at the University of Minnesota.
2024 Hybrid Spring ADRC Meeting
May 6-7, 2024
Registration is now open for both in-person attendance in Austin, TX and virtual attendance on the Hubilo hybrid event platform.
USDeN 2024 Annual Meeting
May 15, 2024
This highly interactive meeting is open to all with an interest in research that aims to improve deprescribing and medication use in older adults.

FUNDING & CAREER DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

NIA Butler-Williams Scholars Program 2024
Deadline: April 19, 2024
The Butler-Williams Scholars Program provides unique opportunities to gain insight about research on aging from a number of perspectives.

Hevolution Foundation Geroscience Research Opportunities (HF-GRO)
Deadline: April 26, 2024
HF-GRO will provide up to $25 million USD in 2024 (the total budget planned over 5 years is $115M USD) to fund projects in Aging Biology or Geroscience (no clinical trials). Hevolution envisions funding approximately 40-60 projects in Aging Biology or Geroscience in 2024. Projects are 4 to 5 years in length, and with a budget range of $300-500k USD direct costs/year; Funding will be made available to independent investigators with labs in the USA, Canada, Europe and the UK.
a2 Pilot Awards
Deadline: April 30, 2024
The fourth annual a2 Pilot Awards competition will include an additional biology of aging focus area alongside existing topic areas of interest. Prospective applicants are encouraged to view the recording of the a2 Pilot Awards Round 1 Q&A Webinar for additional details on this topic area as well as guidance from AITC principal investigators on preparing a strong Round 1 application.
 
Annual NIA Summer Training Course in Experimental Aging Research
Deadline: July 8, 2024
The 31st Annual Summer Training Course provides intense exposure to current concepts in experimental aging research to approximately 20 research scientists to facilitate development of independent research programs in the basic biology of aging.
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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