In our recent renewal proposal to NIA, CDHA successfully requested a large increase in pilot grant support. Our overall budget increased by over 50%, allowing CDHA to increase and broaden support to our affiliates. In addition to our annual competition, which most recently has funded 5 exciting projects around our themes, CDHA will now accept “rapid requests” for smaller funding amounts …
CDHA and CDE affiliates have been busy preparing for the annual meeting of the Population Association of America. This year, 60 affiliates, including faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and scientists, appear on the conference program 132 times as authors, presenters, chairs, or discussants. For more details, see our list of events.
Affiliate Eric Grodsky is part of a research team with members at the University of Minnesota, University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University that recently received $14.2 million in NIA funding. The newly funded project will study biomarker data to understand how childhood shapes risks of Alzheimer‘s and other dementias. Congratulations, all! Read more …
On March 18, the Center for Aging and Policy Studies (Syracuse/Cornell/U-Albany) will host the next session of the NIA Aging Centers’ Collaborative Virtual Methods Workshop Series: “Uncovering Sociological Effect Heterogeneity using Machine-Learning.” Speaker Jennie Brand (UCLA) will present emerging machine learning methods based on decision trees that allow researchers to explore sources of variation that they …
A recent piece from Wisconsin Public Radio on U.S. life expectancy featured comments by CDHA affiliates Michal Engelman and Kristen Malecki. Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics released new estimates on U.S. life expectancy. The provisional data show that life expectancy at birth for the total U.S. …
Congratulations to Alberto Palloni, CDHA affiliate and former director, on receiving a prestigious Advanced Investigator grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Advanced Investigator awards fund ground-breaking, high-risk projects led by principal investigators who are “exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions” with proven track records of achievement. Palloni, Samuel …
This week’s UW Faculty Focus Article features an introduction to Sam Trejo. Sam is one of the scholars who will be joining the University’s Initiative in Social Genomics.
This week’s UW Faculty Focus Article features an introduction to Philipp Koellinger. Philipp is one of the scholars who will be joining the University’s Initiative in Social Genomics.
CDHA is looking to fill multiple postdoctoral positions starting as early as September 2020. For full descriptions, see the links below, and direct any questions to Jason Fletcher (jason.fletcher@wisc.edu) and/or Sherry Huhn (shuhn@wisc.edu). Promoting Diversity in Health-Related Research Postdoctoral Scholar Postdoctoral Research Associate – Multiple Positions Initiative in Social Genomics Postdoctoral Position
CDHA is pleased to announce funding for five new pilot projects for 2020-2021. ZhengZheng Tang, Jooyoung Kong, Philipp Koellinger, Judith Simcox, and Jason Fletcher are our grantees – congratulations! Researchers will study a far-ranging array of aging-related conditions using some of the most advanced technological analytic methods available today. Investigating the Interactions between Inflammatory Biomarkers …