San Antonio Comparative Biology of Aging Center

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求支持在圣安东尼奥建立一个多机构老龄化比较生物学中心。衰老生物学的比较研究是一种新兴的实验范式，有望增加我们对衰老基本过程的理解。没有一个机构具备建立这样一个中心所需的所有要素。然而，通过结合三个机构的优势，可以开发一个世界级的中心。该中心将整合德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥健康科学中心（UTHSCSA）在老年学研究方面的优势，并将建立和扩大西南国家灵长类动物研究中心在灵长类动物研究方面的优势和德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥在生物学和神经科学方面的优势。该中心的发展将通过三个机构的合作来完成，以促进对这一领域感兴趣的教师的招聘，建立年度试点项目计划，开发新的机构间课程老龄化比较生物学，并赞助老龄化比较生物学年度研讨会。此外，这三个机构的研究研讨会方案将举办大量这方面的研讨会。这项新计划的制定将加强德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校和西南生物医学研究基金会的老龄化研究，同时将为国家老龄化研究事业做出重大贡献。拟议方案的结构将保证与每个机构的既定研究方案的最佳整合。这样一个中心的价值，我们对衰老的基本机制的理解的进步最近变得清晰和呼吸和研究的深度到衰老的生物学在圣安东尼奥使这成为一个有效的中心对衰老的比较生物学的逻辑家。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support to develop an Multi-institutional Center on the Comparative Biology of Aging in San Antonio. The comparative study of the biology of aging is an emerging experimental paradigm that promises to increase our understanding of the basic processes of aging. No single institution has all the elements needed to build such a center. However, by combining the strengths of three institutions a world-class center can be developed. This center will incorporate the strengths in gerontological research of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) and will build and expand upon the established strengths of the Southwest National Primate Research Center in primate research and the University of Texas at San Antonio in biology and neuroscience. The development of this center will be accomplished by the collaboration of the three institutions to facilitate the recruitment of faculty with interests in this area, establish an annual pilot project program, develop a new inter-institutional course in the Comparative Biology of Aging and sponsor an Annual Workshop on the Comparative Biology of Aging. In addition, research seminar programs at all three institutions will host a substantial number of seminars to this area. The development of this new program will strengthen aging research at the University of Texas at San Antonio and at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research and at the same time, will contribute substantially to the national research enterprise in aging. The structure of the proposed program will guarantee optimal integration with established research programs at each of the Institutions. The value of such a Center to the advancement of our understanding of the basic mechanisms of aging has recently become clear and the breath and depth of research into the Biology of Aging in San Antonio makes this a logical home for an effective Center on the Comparative Biology of Aging.