research related to aging process
The Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Yale presented new aging-related awards to three University researchers.
Karyn Frick, assistant professor of psychology, has been awarded $50,000 in career development support for her project titled "Environmental Enrichment as Mnemonic Enhancer for Aging Male and Female Mice." Career development awards provide salary and research support for junior faculty in the first five years of faculty appointment.
Dr. Amy Arnsten, associate professor of neurobiology and psychology, received $50,000 for her one-year pilot study titled "Novel Cognitive Enhancer for the Aged: Protein Kinase C Inhibition." Funding is for preliminary testing of a research protocol that will advance understanding of the etiology, diagnosis, treatment or prevention of common geriatric health conditions.
Theodore Holford, the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health and professor of biostatistics, was awarded $50,000 for his methodological development study titled "Analysis Methods for Spatial Factors on Geriatric Health," which will focus on biostatistical issues in aging-related research.
"The mission of the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Yale is to develop and test multi-disciplinary interventions aimed at maintaining and/or improving the functional ability of older persons," says Dr. Mary E. Tinetti, the Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine (geriatrics) and professor of public health, who is director of the Pepper Center.
"Yale Pepper Center activities focus on geriatric health conditions common among older persons that result from the accumulated effects of multiple diseases, impairments, and/or prolonged social, physical, and environmental factors," she continues. "Building on the foundation laid over the last 11 years, we focus on identifying solutions to barriers impeding a more complete understanding of the causes, prevention, treatment and outcomes of multifactorial geriatric health conditions."
Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, professor of medicine (geriatrics) and co-director of the Pepper Center, says, "Other goals of the center have been to advance the careers of junior faculty members in aging-related research, as demonstrated by the award to Karyn Frick, and to encourage the interdisciplinary focus on multifactorial geriatric conditions through the work of senior scientists, as demonstrated by the awards to Amy Arnsten and Theodore Holford."
Letters of intent are currently being solicited from qualified Yale faculty researchers for 2004 Yale Pepper Center awards; the deadline is Dec. 22. Both clinical and basic research projects are eligible. See http://pepper.med.yale.edu for details.
The Yale Pepper Center is made possible by a grant from the National Institute on Aging.
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