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Research Centers Collaborative Network Pilot Awardees

Grants on Changing and Sustaining Behavior Change in Older Adults

Maintaining health behavior change in older adults

  • Jaime Hughes, Duke University
    • Roybal Centers for Translational Research on Aging and Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)
  • Janet Bettger, Duke University
    • Roybal Centers for Translational Research on Aging
  • Minakshi Raj, University of Michigan
    • Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging
  • Susan Hughes, University of Illinois, Chicago
    • Roybal Centers for Translational Research on Aging

Using patient-centered data and behavioral economics to improve physical conditioning, mobility, and healthcare utilization after radical cystectomy

  • Ryan Greysen, University of Pennsylvania
    • Roybal Centers for Translational Research on Aging
  • Ken Covinsky, University of California, San Francisco
    • Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)

Grants on Sex and Gender Differences in Aging

Examining sex differences in pleiotropic effects for depression and cognition using gene polygenic and gene-region aggregation techniques

  • Erin Ware, University of Michigan
    • Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers and Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging
  • Lauren Schmitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging

The CoGenT3 Study: Cognition and gender trends in three American generations

  • Shana Stites, University of Pennsylvania
    • Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers
  • Jason Flatt, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    • Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research and Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)

Grants on Resilience and Reserve in Aging

Resilience Measurement, Prediction, and its Role in Older Adults with Late Stage Lung Cancer

  • Katherine Ramos, Duke University
    • Roybal Centers for Translational Research on Aging and Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)
  • Timothy Strauman, Duke University
    • Roybal Centers for Translational Research on Aging
  • Katherine Hall, Duke University
    • Roybal Centers for Translational Research on Aging and Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)

Positive Affect as a Source of Resilience for Adults in Chronic Pain

  • Anthony Ong, Cornell University
    • Roybal Centers for Translational Research on Aging
  • Cary Reid, Weill Cornell Medical College
    • Roybal Centers for Translational Research on Aging
  • Judith Moskowitz, Northwestern University
    • Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers
  • Elizabeth Addington, Northwestern University
    • Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers

Grants on Life Course Perspectives on Aging and Resilience and Reserve in Aging

Using qualitative life course perspectives to understand the lived experience of structural racism in older Black adults and its influence on goal-concordant end-of-life care

  • Elizabeth Dzeng, University of California, San Francisco
    • Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)
  • Ronit Elk, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    • Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research

Perceived Discrimination Trajectories, Resilience Characteristics and Multimorbidity among Middle‐Aged and Older Black Americans

  • Kellee White, University of Maryland College Park
    • Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)
  • Ana Quiñones, Oregon Health & Science University
    • Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers
  • Tianzhou Ma, University of Maryland College Park
    • Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)

Protective Resilience Index for Successful Aging in Musculoskeletal Pain (PRISM)

  • Kimberly Sibille, University of Florida
    • Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)
  • Emily Bartley, University of Florida
    • Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)
  • Amber Brooks, Wake Forest School of Medicine
    • Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers and Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)

Grants on Measuring Biologic Age

Early Aging Models for Kidney in Non-Human Primates


  • Jamie Justice, Wake Forest School of Medicine
    • Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)
  • Birgit Schilling, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
    • Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging

Grants on Aging, Race, and Health Disparities

Moderating Effects of Neighborhood Characteristics in the Relationship between Trajectories of Social Disconnection and Cognitive Decline in Black Americans

  • Ann W. Nguyen, Case Western Reserve University
    • Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers
  • Harry Owen Chatters Taylor, University of Toronto
    • Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research

Inter-NIA Center/CTSA Hub Grants For Implementation Activities in Support of Inclusion of Older Adults in Clinical Trials

Older Adult Community Engagement Studios & Mind Bank

  • Steven M. Albert, University of Pittsburgh
    • Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)
  • Mylynda Massart, University of Pittsburgh
    • Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Hubs
  • Janelle J. Christensen, University of Pittsburgh
    • Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC) and Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Hubs
  • Maya Ragavan, University of Pittsburgh
    • Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Hubs
  • Leslie P. Scheunemann, University of Pittsburgh
    • Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)

Age-Friendly Research: Building Infrastructure and Research Team Skills to Enhance Inclusion of Older Adults

  • Elizabeth Eckstrom, Oregon Health & Science University
    • Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Hubs
  • Allison Lindauer, Oregon Health & Science University
    • Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers

Engaging Older Latino Caregivers in Design of a Cultural Adaptation Clinical Trial

  • Maria M. Quiñones-Cordero, University of Rochester Medical Center
    • Roybal Centers for Translational Research on Aging
  • Silvia Sörensen, University of Rochester
    • Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Hubs