National Training Centers

All National Training Centers (NTCs) offer excellent facilities, diverse research programs, and provide the opportunity for interaction with other students participating in the program.

Please be in touch directly with the National Training Centers to determine their availability and program deadlines.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Program Directors: Colleen Christmas

Program Administrator: Lindia Holmes

Available positions: 18

(Please note: The program duration at Johns Hopkins is 8 weeks.)

New York University

Program Director: Joshua Chodosh

Program Administrator: Emily Johnston

Contact email: mstar@nyulangone.org

Program Website: https://med.nyu.edu/department...

Available positions: 16

University of California, Los Angeles - David Geffen School of Medicine

Program Directors: Cathy Lee (cathy.c.lee@ucla.edu), John Shen (johnshen@mednet.ucla.edu)

Program website: https://www.uclahealth.org/geriatrics/mstar

Contact email: uclamstar@mednet.ucla.edu

Available positions: 20

Partner sites: The UCLA Training Center includes positions at the partner sites below:

• University of California, San Francisco, program directors Sei Lee (Sei.Lee@ucsf.edu), John Newman (JNewman@buckinstitute.org); program administrator: Elaine Chow (Elaine.Chow2@ucsf.edu) (6-8 positions)
• University of Washington, program directors May Reed (mjr@uw.edu), Itay Bentov (itayb@uw.edu) (3-4 positions)

Students interested in training at UCLA, UCSF or UW must contact the respective program coordinator (UCLA & UCSF) or director (UW) prior to submitting their application. Please contact the UCLA Training Center for an application form as UCLA and its partner sites have their own application and will not accept applications forwarded from other MSTAR training sites.

University of California San Diego School of Medicine

Program Directors: Benjamin Han and Ellen Lee

Program website:

https://healthyaging.ucsd.edu/...

Contact email: lajimenez@health.ucsd.edu

Available positions: 18

University of North Carolina

Program Director: Jan Busby-Whitehead

Associate Program Director: Ellen Roberts

Administrator: Kristen Ruck

Program website: https://www.med.unc.edu/aging/mstar

Available positions: 18

Interested applicants are required to contact the program and submit an interest form prior to completing their application. UNC Chapel Hill has its own application and will not accept applications forwarded from other National Training Centers.

The University of Texas Medical Student Training in Aging Research (UT-MSTAR)

A new collaboration between UT Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSA), UT Health Houston (UTH), UT Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB Health), and UT Southwestern (UTSW).

Program Director: Elena Volpi

Program Manager: Alexis King, MS

Program website: https://www.utmb.edu/scoa/educ...