In 2019, the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH, announced its award of nearly $4.5 million over the next five years in support of a new Clin-STAR (Clinician-Scientists Transdisciplinary Aging Research) Coordinating Center.
AFAR will serve as the Coordinating Center’s National Program Office; additionally, three Academic Resource Centers at Yale University School of Medicine; University of California, San Francisco; Johns Hopkins University comprise the Coordinating Center.
The Clin-STAR Coordinating Center will develop a multi-faceted, national platform to promote and enrich the career development, training and trans-disciplinary research of clinician-investigators across the U.S., particularly early stage investigators who are committed to careers in aging research.
The Center will build on the collective and complementary experience of four principal investigators, senior administrative leadership at AFAR, and a team that includes more than 20 clinician investigators from a diverse array of 20 academic institutions across the country.
Read a related press release here.