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Horizons in Gerontology: A Chat with NIA Senior Leadership

Horizons in Gerontology: A Chat with NIA Senior Leadership

Includes a Live Web Event on 02/17/2026 at 10:30 AM (EST)

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In the decades since its establishment, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health has propelled advances and innovations across multiple domains of aging research, including basic biology, neuroscience, geriatrics and clinical gerontology, and behavioral and social science. NIA is also the federal leader in Alzheimer’s disease research. This multidisciplinary research portfolio affords a wide array of opportunities in aging science for early-career and established investigators alike. 

 Join NIA leadership for this interactive 90-minute webinar focused on the latest opportunities in aging research. The webinar will provide a forum for discussion between the research community and NIA leadership, explore research foci of NIA’s scientific divisions, and review opportunities and resources available to researchers.  

Agenda

Start Time Topic Speaker(s)
10:30 AM ET Introduction Kenneth Santora, NIA Acting Deputy Director and Director of the NIA Division of Extramural Activities 
10:32 AM ET Remarks from the NIA Director Richard Hodes, NIA Director
  Presentations from NIA Divisions  
10:42 AM ET Division of Extramural Activities Kenneth Santora
10:47 AM ET Division of Behavioral and Social Research Lisbeth Nielsen, Director, NIA Division of Behavioral and Social Research
10:52 AM ET Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology Evan Hadley, Director, NIA Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology 
10:57 AM ET Division of Neuroscience Jennie Larkin, Director, NIA Division of Neuroscience 
11:02 AM ET Division of Aging Biology Viviana Perez Montes, Director, NIA Division of Aging Biology
11:07 AM ET Intramural Research Program Eleanor Simonsick, Epidemiologist, Translational Gerontology Branch, NIA Intramural Research Program 
11:12 AM ET General Q&A  
11:30 AM ET Small Group Discussions  
12:00 PM ET Conclude  


 

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