NIA primes the pump for health disparities research in aging
If you are interested in health disparities and aging research, the NIA is ready, willing and able to help be a resource for you and the field. In recent months, we have undertaken several activities to enhance research opportunities, and I’d like to tell you about a few of these to keep you involved and make sure you’re up to speed! (Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers)
Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - June 15, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carl V. Hill, Director, Office of Special Populations Source Type: blogs
Involving the research community in NIA ’s Interventions Testing Program
NIA & rsquo;s Interventions Testing Program (ITP) wants you! We want to expand the involvement of the research community in this unique program that tests compounds for potential drug development. The Collaborative Interactions Program (ITP CIP) is a new phase of community involvement to broaden what we know about the health and lifespan outcomes of the interventions we test. (Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers)
Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - June 1, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Nancy Nadon, Program Officer of the Biological Resources Program and Chief, Biological Resources Branch, Division of Aging Biology Source Type: blogs
Involving the research community in NIA’s Interventions Testing Program
NIA’s Interventions Testing Program (ITP) wants you! We want to expand the involvement of the research community in this unique program that tests compounds for potential drug development. The Collaborative Interactions Program (ITP CIP) is a new phase of community involvement to broaden what we know about the health and lifespan outcomes of the interventions we test. (Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers)
Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - June 1, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Nancy Nadon, Program Officer of the Biological Resources Program and Chief, Biological Resources Branch, Division of Aging Biology Source Type: blogs
News on Career Development Awards funding
We are now paying career award applications to a score of 15. I know this will bring cold comfort to too many of you. And, the shock of learning that we are paying those career award applications with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s disease to a score above 30 leaves a sharp sting for those whose worthy aims do not address that priority. (Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers)
Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - May 25, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Robin Barr, Director of the Division of Extramural Activities Source Type: blogs
Webinar features overview of grants process
You have a burning idea about aging. Now you need the funding for it. What do you do? Or, you once sent an application through the inscrutable machinery of grants.gov. You even retrieved reviews after an eternity of waiting. And now, apart from burying the reviews in several feet of dirt where they will be of most use, you have no idea what your next move is. We may have the answer for you. (Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers)
Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - May 18, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Toccara Chamberlain, Program Analyst in the Office of Legislation, Policy, and International Activities Source Type: blogs
Connect with NIA at AGS!
California, here we come! No, we’re not participating in a gold rush, we’re going to the annual meeting of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) next week in Long Beach. We’re looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones. We also hope that you’ll take the opportunity to connect with NIA staff at the meeting, during scientific sessions and at the Exhibit Hall. (Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers)
Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - May 11, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Marie A. Bernard, Deputy Director, National Institute on Aging Source Type: blogs
The Clinical Trials Advisory Panel: A good start for a clinical trial
Large-scale clinical trials are expensive. They require a lot of time and money on the part of the investigators. So does preparing an NIH application for a clinical trial. One way you can save time and money at the beginning of the process is to submit a concept proposal for your trial to NIA’s Clinical Trials Advisory Panel (CTAP). (Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers)
Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - May 4, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Sergei Romashkan, Chief of the Clinical Trials Branch, Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology Source Type: blogs
Transparency and funding lines
About half of the 22 NIH Institutes no longer post a funding line. Of course, we at NIA do so much better—we post multiple funding lines! We are transparent, though. I’ve heard it said around the halls of NIH that a funding line is a crutch for staff, an easy way to indicate to investigators that their application could not be paid. (Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers)
Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - April 27, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Robin Barr, Director of the Division of Extramural Activities Source Type: blogs
April pay line update
It is April. Spring flowers, trees in bud, warming temperatures, and a funding update from NIA that is as natural as the Spring, and as welcome as the flowers? (OK. Not so much!) Still, it is good news for some. (Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers)
Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - April 20, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Robin Barr, Director of the Division of Extramural Activities Source Type: blogs
Good news for Career Award applicants
It’s spring! Here’s some exciting news that may help you get some spring fever! Effective with applications submitted on February, 12, 2016, and moving forward, NIH is allowing up to $100,000 plus fringe benefits toward an applicant’s salary to cover the percentage effort requested on NIH K08 and K23 awards. Current K awardees also benefit from these new guidelines. (Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers)
Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - April 13, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Chyren Hunter, Deputy Director and Training Officer, Division of Extramural Activities Source Type: blogs
Data sharing: The name of the game in Alzheimer ’s research
Thousands of gene candidates in the human genome have the potential to play a role in the onset and progression of Alzheimer & rsquo;s disease. But you are just one scientist. How can you even start such an enormous task? This quest & mdash;one scientist analyzing thousands of gene candidates & mdash;can seem overwhelming. I want to share with you two great NIA-funded resources that collect and store biological specimens and data & mdash;and are available to you and the wider research community. (Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers)
Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - April 6, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Creighton Phelps, Deputy Director, Division of Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Data sharing: The name of the game in Alzheimer’s research
Thousands of gene candidates in the human genome have the potential to play a role in the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s disease. But you are just one scientist. How can you even start such an enormous task? This quest—one scientist analyzing thousands of gene candidates—can seem overwhelming. I want to share with you two great NIA-funded resources that collect and store biological specimens and data—and are available to you and the wider research community. (Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers)
Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - April 6, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Creighton Phelps, Deputy Director, Division of Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
A unique resource for women of color
When I began graduate school in 1999, I knew right away that my experience would be different from that of my peers: I am a female scientist of color, and when I looked for others that looked like me, I saw only a few. Naturally, I wondered why this was the case and whether anything could be done to change the situation. While I understood the complexities of this issue, I believed that something could be done, and fortunately when I arrived at NIH, I found ready agreement among my colleagues. (Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers)
Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - March 30, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Cerise Elliott, Senior Research Program Analyst, Division of Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Can review become more discriminating?
Several recent commentaries (Danthi, Wu, Shi and Lauer; Lauer, Danthi, Kaltman, and Wu;) have found that the percentile rank an application receives in peer review has little or no noticeable relationship to how productive (in terms of citation impact of publications) a subsequent award is, should the application be so fortunate as to be awarded. So, a first-percentile application is apparently no more productive than a 15th-percentile application. Is that outcome really surprising? (Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers)
Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - March 23, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Robin Barr, Director of the Division of Extramural Activities Source Type: blogs
NIA ’s updated strategic directions: A roadmap for progress
At the National Institute on Aging, our shared vision is one in which all Americans enjoy robust health and independence with advancing age. Although we have come far in 40 years of supporting and & nbsp; conducting research, we in the scientific community will need to think broadly, creatively, intelligently & mdash;and strategically & mdash;to pursue this goal most effectively. I am proud to let you know that an updated version of NIA & rsquo;s Strategic Directions, Aging Well in the 21st Century, is now available. (Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers)
Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - March 16, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Richard Hodes, Director, National Institute on Aging Source Type: blogs
