NIH Wants Your Input on an Upcoming Geroscience Summit

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) and other NIH institutes want your input on a scientific summit on aging that’s currently in the works.

NIH is working to develop an NIH Geroscience Summit to be held in 2019. To assist with planning, NIH has issued a request for recommendations and feedback for the summit, open to researchers, organizations, and others, which closes on June 1, 2018.

According to NIH, geroscience is an integrative field combining behavioral science and molecular and cellular research to improve the health of the aging. In 2013, NIH held its first Geroscience Summit, which identified new research directions in this growing field. In 2016, NIH held a similar summit. Now, NIH is planning for a third Geroscience Summit, to be held in the spring of 2019. As part of the planning process, NIH is requesting your input on the following topics:

• Recommendations for specific age-related chronic diseases/conditions that should be considered in the planning for a third NIH Geroscience Summit;
• Feedback on whether individual organizations may be interested in contributing input to the planning of such a Summit, and areas of interest for participation;
• Feedback on whether individual organizations may be interested in participating in a summit session that would encompass scientific presentations by public and private stakeholders about the links between specific chronic diseases and geroscience, as well as suggested subtopics for such a session; and
• Input on the potential impact of this type of session on future scientific needs and progress in regard to specific diseases affected by aging.

To respond to NIH’s request for information, submit an e-mail to geroscience3@mail.nih.gov. Responses are due by 11:59 PM ET on June 1, 2018.

To learn about recent research on aging, as presented at the 2017 International Convention of Psychological Science, click here.