Event Type
Seminars & Lectures
Established in April 2023, the Center for Healthy Aging aims to promote healthy aging and extend physical and mental well-being through innovative research solutions. Please join us for our next seminar, and see upcoming events/opportunities below.
Frank Lin, MD, PhD, Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, Professor of Otolaryngology, Medicine, Mental Health and Epidemiology, Director Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University, Transforming Hearing through Evidence, Policy, and Awareness:
- Hearing is critical for our daily communicative, social, cognitive, and physical functioning. However, while declines in hearing occur universally across the human lifespan, societal perceptions and governmental policies toward age-related hearing loss do not reflect the singular importance of effective hearing to human health. Instead, hearing loss is widely stigmatized and ignored, and hearing interventions are underutilized, inaccessible, and unaffordable.
- Transforming our approach toward hearing to optimize population health requires changing the fundamental assumptions and rules that govern the global hearing care marketplace. I will discuss over the past decade efforts to transform hearing in the United States through the three foundational pillars of producing high-level scientific evidence to establish the importance of hearing to adult health, developing market-shaping policies to increase innovation and competition in hearing technologies, and changing societal perceptions and awareness of hearing through the Hearing Number initiative.
March 26th at 11 am
Meeting ID: 980 3702 2918
Passcode: 426599
Upcoming Seminars, with tentative titles:
- April 30, 11 am: Dennis Selkoe, MD, Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases, Harvard University, Role of soluble oligomers of amyloid beta in synaptic injury
- May 28, 11 am: Priyadharshini Devarajan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stony Brook University, Leveraging what works: Age-associated B cells and protective immunity against infection in the elderly
Other Center for Healthy Aging Events:
American Federation for Aging Research Grants
The major goal of this program is to assist in the development of the careers of junior investigators committed to pursuing careers in aging research. The program supports research projects concerned with understanding the basic mechanisms of aging rather than disease-specific research. Projects investigating age-related diseases are supported if approached from the point of view of how basic aging processes may lead to these conditions. Projects concerning mechanisms underlying common geriatric functional disorders are also eligible, as long as these include connections to fundamental problems in the biology of aging. Projects that deal strictly with clinical problems such as the diagnosis and treatment of disease, health outcomes, or the social context of aging are not eligible.
Projects investigating mechanisms of, or putative therapies for, Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias, are not eligible for this award and investigators should consider applying instead to the Small Research Grant Program for the Next Generation of Researchers in Alzheimer's Disease (R03).
Projects investigating ger-omics should apply for The Sagol Network GerOmic Award for Junior Faculty (currently waiting for renewal for 2025.)
It is anticipated that approximately 10 grants of up to $150,000 each will be awarded in 2025.
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Location
Zoom