Developing an NIA Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN)

项目概要/摘要 与老龄化社会相关的问题超越了任何特定的界限 学科并在多个生物和社会领域发挥作用，从个人到 细胞、器官和器官系统、个人、社区、国家和世界 经济体。国家老龄化研究所的六个中心项目涉及以下重要主题： 老龄化，但通常他们是从特定学科的角度来做这件事，目前还没有 促进跨学科合作的机制。拟议的 U24 研究中心 协调网络 (RCCN) 由美国老龄化研究联合会和 维克森林医学院。它将启动新的跨学科合作网络 汇集了 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：1) 发现智力机会 通过中心间合作可以得到最好的推进； 2）促进跨界发展 中心合作； 3）为早期职业教师提供跨领域互动的新机会 中心计划扩大其多学科合作网络； 4）利用 RCCN 的活动旨在为多学科老龄化研究带来更多资源。达到 为实现这些目标，我们提出五个具体目标： 1. 召集 RCCN 的指导、执行和实施 协调中心委员会确定项目的总体方向、组织和交付 计划活动，并促进信息传播； 2.刺激交叉中心 通过 5 个跨领域科学主题会议进行合作，每个会议至少与 6 个中心中有 4 个针对已确定的研究重点开展计划和中心间试点赠款。 会议论文集将被传播，以造福于更广泛的老龄化研究界和 公开。与会议系列相关的飞行员将提供种子资金来建设新的中心间 研究伙伴关系； 3. 为早期职业教师提供教育活动，以建立 多学科和跨机构研究的能力，包括教育 每次会议的会议和网络研讨会系列重点关注关键概念问题和 培养受过多学科培训的新一批学者的方法论 调查； 4. 与现有 NIA 中心协调中心合作传播 RCCN 活动并制定方法，以促进识别所有领域的教师/资源 中心计划。 RCCN 将代表 Roybal 计划建立一个新网站； 5. 使用 RCCN 促进基金会、CTSA 的应用程序开发 项目或其他与 NIA 更广泛的使命有兴趣的潜在赞助商。

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.