Developing an NIA Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN)

项目摘要/摘要 与老龄化社会相关的问题超越了任何特定的 纪律，并在多个生物和社会领域发挥作用，从个人 细胞、器官和器官系统、个人、社区、国家和世界 经济。六个国家老龄中心项目解决了#年的重要主题 老龄化，但通常他们是从特定的学科角度来做这件事的，目前没有 促进跨学科合作的机制。拟建的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协作网络 汇集了来自6个NIA中心项目的关键思想领袖。U24将 实施5个互补和协同的战略：1)发现智力机会 2)刺激跨中心合作的发展 中心协作；3)为早期职业教师提供新的机会 中心计划以扩展其多学科协作网络；以及4)利用 RCCN为多学科老龄化研究带来额外资源的活动。要实现 在这些目标中，我们提出了五个具体目标：1.召开RCCN指导、执行和 协调中心委员会确定项目总体方向，组织实施 计划活动，促进信息传播；2.促进跨中心 通过5次关于交叉科学主题的会议进行协作，每个会议至少与 6个中心中的4个项目和中心间试点拨款旨在确定研究优先事项。 将为更大的老龄化研究界和 公开的。与会议系列相关的飞行员将提供种子资金，以建设新的国际中心 研究伙伴关系；3.为职业早期教师提供教育活动，以建立 多学科和跨机构研究的能力，包括教育 每次会议的会议和一系列网络研讨会，重点是关键的概念问题和 促进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 开展活动并制定方法，以促进在所有部门中确定教师/资源 以项目为中心。RCCN将代表Roybal方案建立一个新网站； 5.利用RCCN促进对基金会、CTSA的应用开发 计划或其他潜在赞助商，其利益与NIA更广泛的使命保持一致。

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.