Undergraduate Fundamentals in Aging Research

衰老研究本科基础知识

• 批准号: 10729876
• 负责人: KENNETH G CAMPELLONE
• 金额: $ 27.09万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-15 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10729876
• 关键词: Address; Admission activity; Age; Aging; Behavioral; Biological; Biological Aging; Biological Sciences; Biology of Aging; Cellular biology; Chronic Disease; Communication; Communities; Course Content; Development; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Education Projects; Educational Activities; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Engineering; Enrollment; Event; Exposure to; Foundations; Generations; Genetic; Genome; Genomics; Gerontology; Geroscience; Goals; Health; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; Journals; Laboratory Study; Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer; Literature; Mentors; Minority Groups; Minority Participation; Modeling; Modernization; Nutritional; Outcome; Paper; Population; Process; Program Description; Publishing; Reading; Research; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Research Training; Risk Factors; Scientist; Societies; Student recruitment; Students; System; Techniques; Therapeutic; Traction; Training; Universities; Woman; Writing; anti aging; base; career development; cohort; curriculum development; design; disability; disadvantaged background; education research; experience; faculty mentor; healthy aging; improved; learning materials; mathematical sciences; medical schools; meetings; member; outreach; outreach program; peer coaching; pharmacologic; posters; programs; science education; skill acquisition; skills; student training; summer research; symposium; undergraduate education; undergraduate research experience; undergraduate student; underrepresented minority student

PROJECT SUMMARY Aging is the greatest risk factor for most chronic illnesses, and the interdisciplinary field of geroscience aims to understand the mechanisms of biological aging that impact the development of such age-associated and chronic diseases. While this concept has gained traction in some graduate programs affiliated with medical schools, geroscience is not well recognized or represented at the undergraduate level. To address the need for growing the geroscience workforce, the long-term goal of this education program is to increase the quantity and quality of new geroscience investigators by providing teaching and training to the most foundational population for strengthening the geroscientist pipeline – undergraduate students. NIA support will enable our creation of an undergraduate Education in Aging and Geroscience Research (EAGR) program. It is designed to support educational and research activities for undergraduates that will advance both basic and translational aspects of geroscience. Our EAGR program will be implemented through the execution of 5 synergistic Aims: (1) Create a geroscience coursework curriculum for training undergraduate students in the biological bases of aging and fundamentals of aging research; (2) Establish a research program for undergraduate students to gain hands-on experience in laboratories studying geroscience and the pillars/hallmarks of aging; (3) Promote career development and scientific communication activities that expedite student admission into graduate programs and identification of geroscience PhD labs; (4) Enhance the diversity of student researchers entering the geroscience field; (5) Disseminate course materials and research findings to the geroscience community and improve the public understanding of geroscience. By seeding the field of aging with new researchers and sharing the procedural aspects of the EAGR program, we hope to impact geroscience for many years to come.

项目摘要 衰老是大多数慢性疾病的最大风险因素，老年科学的跨学科领域旨在 了解生物老化的机制，影响这种年龄相关的发展， 慢性病虽然这个概念在一些与医学相关的研究生课程中获得了牵引力， 在学校中，老年科学在本科一级没有得到很好的承认或代表。为了满足 为了增加老年科学的劳动力，这个教育计划的长期目标是增加数量， 通过向最基础的老年科学研究人员提供教学和培训， 加强老年科学家队伍的人口-本科生。NIA支持将使我们的 创建一个本科教育在老龄化和老年科学研究（EAGR）计划。它被设计 支持本科生的教育和研究活动，以促进基础和翻译 老年科学方面。我们的EAGR计划将通过执行5个协同目标来实施： (1)创建一个老年科学课程的生物学基础培训本科生， 老龄化和老龄化研究的基础;（2）建立一个研究计划，为本科生， 在研究老年科学和老龄化的支柱/标志的实验室获得实践经验;（3）促进 职业发展和科学交流活动，加快学生进入研究生入学 计划和老年科学博士实验室的识别;（4）提高学生研究人员进入的多样性 （5）向老年科学界传播课程材料和研究成果 提高公众对老年科学的认识。通过在老龄化领域引进新的研究人员， 通过分享EAGR计划的程序方面，我们希望在未来的许多年里影响老年科学。