Developing an NIA Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN)

项目总结/摘要 与老龄化社会相关的问题超越了任何具体的界限， 学科和发挥了多个生物和社会领域，从个人 细胞、器官和器官系统、个人、社区、国家和世界 经济体六个国家老龄化研究所中心计划解决的重要课题， 老化，但通常他们这样做是从一个特定的学科的角度来看，目前没有 促进跨学科合作的机制。U24研究中心 协调网络（RCCN）由美国老龄研究联合会和 维克森林医学院。它将启动新的跨学科合作网络 汇集了来自6个NIA中心项目的关键思想领袖。U24将 实施5项互补和协同战略，以：1）确定智力机会 （2）促进跨中心合作的发展; 中心合作; 3）为早期职业教师提供新的机会，使他们能够在整个 中心计划，以扩大其多学科合作网络;和4）利用 RCCN活动为多学科老龄化研究带来额外资源。实现 针对这些目标，我们提出五个具体目标：1.召集RCCN指导，执行和 协调中心委员会，以确定该计划的总体方向，组织和交付 规划活动，促进信息传播; 2.刺激跨中心 通过5次跨领域科学主题会议开展合作，每次会议至少涉及 6个中心中的4个项目和中心间试点赠款针对确定的研究重点。 会议记录将传播的利益，更大的老龄化研究社区和 公众与会议系列有关的试点将提供种子资金，以建立新的国际中心 研究伙伴关系; 3.为早期职业教师提供教育活动， 在多学科和跨机构的研究能力，包括教育 在每次会议上举行的网络研讨会和一系列网络研讨会，重点是关键的概念问题， 培养一批受过多学科培训的新学者的方法 调查; 4.与现有的NIA中心协调中心合作，传播RCCN 活动，并制定方法，以促进教师/资源的识别在所有 中心方案。RCCN将代表Roybal计划建立一个新网站; 和5.使用RCCN促进基金会应用程序的开发，CTSA 计划或其他潜在的赞助商与NIA的更广泛的使命的利益一致。

Project Summary/Abstract The problems associated with an aging society transcend the boundaries of any specific discipline and play out across multiple biologic and societal domains ranging from individual cells, to organs and organ systems, to persons, to communities, to national and world economies. The six National Institute on Aging center programs address important topics in aging but typically they do this from a specific disciplinary perspective, and there is currently no mechanism to foster cross-disciplinary collaborations. This proposed U24 Research Centers Coordinating Network (RCCN) is led by the American Federation for Aging Research and the Wake Forest School of Medicine. It will initiate new cross-disciplinary collaborative networks bringing together key thought leaders from each of the 6 NIA center programs. The U24 will implement 5 complementary and synergistic strategies to: 1) identify intellectual opportunities that are best advanced by inter-center collaboration; 2) stimulate the development of cross- center collaborations; 3) provide new opportunities for early career faculty to interact across the center programs to expand their multidisciplinary collaborative network; and 4) leverage the RCCN activities to bring additional resources to multidisciplinary aging research. To achieve these goals, we propose five specific aims: 1. Convene RCCN steering, executive, and coordinating center committees to set the program's overall direction, organize and deliver program activities, and facilitate information dissemination; 2. Stimulate cross-center collaboration through 5 conferences on cross-cutting scientific themes each relevant to at least 4 of the 6 centers programs and inter-center pilot grants targeting identified research priorities. Proceedings will be disseminated for the benefit of the larger aging research community and the public. Pilots tied to the conference series will provide seed money to build new inter-center research partnerships; 3. Provide educational activities for early-career faculty to build competencies in multidisciplinary and cross-institutional research, including educational sessions at each conference and a webinar series focusing on key conceptual issues and methodologies to foster the development of a new cohort of scholars trained for multidisciplinary investigation; 4. Work with existing NIA center coordinating centers to disseminate RCCN activities and develop methods to facilitate the identification of faculty/resources across all centers programs. The RCCN will establish a new website on behalf of the Roybal program; and 5. Use the RCCN to foster the development of applications to foundations, the CTSA program or other potential sponsors with interests aligned with the NIA's broader mission.