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Read about our 36th AGE annual meeting
SAVE THE DATE: June 1-4, 2007
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35th AGE ANNUAL MEETING
- June 2-5, 2006 |
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2006 MEETING
Once more, the American Aging Association
brings another great event to its
constituents. With
297 attendees, and 118 submitted abstracts,
three days of sessions and posters, one full
day of a pre-meeting symposium on caloric
restriction, one debate on Alzheimer's disease,
one workshop, one student session, several awards
and functions, we have packaged a most
successful event for the Association and its
members.
Click in the red
box above to review our final program.
PICTURES
We have posted
a few pictures from the Meeting (courtesy of John Furber).
Click here to access the gallery.
Should you wish to share your own pictures
from this meeting, please forward them to
Ms. Donna Cini at
AmerAging@aol.com.
EVALUATE OUR
MEETING
For those of
you who participated in the annual meeting
and did not have a chance to submit your
evaluation, please help us by completing
this quick survey online:
The survey will
take less than 2 minutes to complete and it
is designed to help us calibrate future
sessions, presentations and meeting formats
such that they respond better to your
specific needs. We thank everyone who
has taken the time to submit these
responses. Please note that survey
results will be published in our next issue.
OUR SUPPORTERS
The 35th American
Aging Association Annual Meeting Organizers
are most grateful for the support of the
following organizations:
P L A T I N U M S P O N S O R S
GOLD SPONSORS
SILVER SPONSORS
Bronze
Sponsors:
SCHOLARSHIP SPONSORS:
AWARD SPONSORS:
CLICK HERE to read more on our
supporters.
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2007
ANNUAL MEETING - SAVE THE DATE! |
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Dates |
June 1-4, 2007 |
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Location |
San Antonio, Texas |
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Venue |
Marriott Plaza
Hotel- near the
Riverwalk in
downtown San Antonio |
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Title |
Current Directions
in Studying
Mechanisms of Aging |
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Chair |
Holly Van Remmen,
PhD -
AGE President |
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Main topics |
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Comparative
biology studies
on common
mechanisms of
aging
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IGF-1 and Aging
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Genetics of
Aging
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Invertebrate
models as a
discovery tool
for genes and
processes that
determine life
span and aging
rates
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Nutrient Sensing
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Stem cells:
Potential
therapeutic use
in aging
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NEW |
We are planning a
luncheon debate on
the role of
evolution in aging
"Does
evolutionary theory
contribute
creatively to modern
research on aging?"
We also
plan to include a
Trans-Atlantic
Awareness and
Collaboration
Symposium on Aging
Research presented
by scientists in the
UK - more updates to
follow in future
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS |
The meeting website
will open at the end
of August - an
announcement will
follow in our next
newsletter issue.
Stay tuned! |
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ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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AGE NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
(for bios, visit AGE website at
www.americanaging.org/board.html)
2006-2007
President:
Holly Van Remmen, PhD
President-Elect:
Thomas
Johnson, PhD
Immediate Past President:
Simin Nikbin
Meydani, DVM PhD
Vice President:
Jean Carper
Vice President-Elect:
Barbara Boyd
Secretary:
Barbara Shukitt-Hale, PhD
Executive Director:
Arthur K.
Balin, MD, PhD, FACP
Treasurer:
Arthur K. Balin, MD, PhD, FACP
Trustees:
Denham Harman, MD, PhD, FACP; Herb Boynton
Board Members
Past Four Presidents:
Andrzej Bartke, PhD
Norman S. Wolf, DVM, PhD
James Joseph, PhD, Chairperson
Paula Bickford, PhD
Lay Members
Helen Harman
David Kekich
Jean Carper
Donna Cini
John Furber
Scientific Members
Rafael deCabo, PhD
Aubrey de Grey, PhD
Greg Fahy, PhD
Robert Floyd, PhD
S. Mitchell Harman, MD, PhD
Donald K. Ingram, PhD
Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, PhD
George S. Roth, PhD
Julie Mattison, PhD
Mohsen Meydani, DVM, PhD
Richard Miller, MD, PhD
Barbara Shukitt-Hale, PhD
Mark A. Smith, PhD
Holly Van Remmen, PhD
MaryLou Voytko, PhD
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WELCOME TO OUR NEW AGE
MEMBERS:
Joseph C. Maroon, MD, Science Member,
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Janet McElhaney, MD, Science
Member, University of Connecticut Health
Center
Adriane
Santo-Torres, Science Member
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GRANT/AWARD ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tilker Medical
Research Foundation Announces Inaugural Grants
Program
Deadline: September 1, 2006
www.tilkermedicalfoundation.org
The Tilker Medical
Research Foundation is accepting applications
for its first series of grant awards. With
the goal of accelerating the discovery of new
treatments and cures for neurodegenerative
diseases, the foundation offers two kinds of
grants to recognize and promote pioneering
research in the areas of stem cell research and
nanotechnology: the Seed Funding Award of
$25,000 promotes innovative research by junior
investigators at U.S. institutions, and the
Outstanding Investigator Award of $100,000 is an
international grant to support groundbreaking
work by outstanding researchers. In addition to
stem cell research, the Tilker Medical Research
Foundation also supports cutting-edge efforts in
nanotechnology for targeting, delivery and
personalization of new medicines.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Announces Career
Awards for Medical Scientists Program
Deadline:
October 2, 2006
www.bwfund.org
The Burroughs
Wellcome Fund's Career Awards for Medical
Scientists is the result of the
reformulation of the Career Awards in the
Biomedical Sciences program, which was
instituted by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund in
1995 and ran through the 2006 award year. In
response to the National Institutes of
Health's (
http://www.nih.gov/
) K99/R00 Pathway to Independence awards,
the BWF has shifted focus to address the
ongoing problem of increasing the number of
physician scientists and keeping them in
research. BWF believes that this bridging
award, supporting the last year(s) of a
mentored position in addition to supporting
the beginning years of an independent
position, will facilitate the transition to
a career in research and buy time from
service commitments.
The program provides $700,000 over five
years to bridge advanced
postdoctoral/fellowship training and the
early years of faculty service.
Candidates should have an M.D., D.D.S.,
D.V.M., or equivalent clinical degree.
Proposals must be in the area of basic
biomedical, disease oriented, translational,
or molecular, genetic, or pharmacological
epidemiology research. Candidates with
proposals in the area of epidemiology should
contact BWF to determine the eligibility of
the proposal. Proposals in health services
research or involving large-scale clinical
trials are ineligible. During the
postdoctoral/fellowship period, awardees may
train at degree-granting institutions in the
United States or Canada.
All faculty positions must be taken at U.S.
or Canadian degree- granting institutions.
During the award period, at least 75 percent
of the awardee's time must be devoted to
research- related activities.
American Health
Assistance Foundation Invites Applications for
Alzheimer's Disease Research Program
Deadline: October 13, 2006
www.ahaf.org
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OTHER
NEWS
The first issue of
the International Journal of Ageing and Later
Life (IJAL) is available at www.ep.liu.se/ej/ijal/.
The International Journal of Ageing and Later
Life (IJAL) serves an audience interested in
social and cultural aspects of ageing and later
life development. The title of the journal
reflects an attempt to broaden the field of
ageing studies. In addition to studies on later
life, IJAL also welcomes contributions focusing
on adult ageing as well as relations among
generations.
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