# Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging Training Grant

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · 2020 · $722,865

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
The past two decades have seen major advances in understanding the basic mechanisms of biological aging.
Simultaneously, there has been a rapidly growing appreciation of the importance of these mechanisms in
human health and disease, which has been conceptualized by the term “geroscience”. This term refers to the
research approach that seeks to understand this fundamental relationship between aging and disease. With
the rapid expansion in knowledge and interest in this field, there is a great, unmet need to train the next
generation of scientific leaders at the interface of fundamental mechanisms of biological aging and clinically
relevant age-related disease. This is the underlying, guiding theme of our proposed training program at the
University of Washington. Our mission is to provide cutting-edge Training in Biological Mechanisms of Healthy
Aging. This training program will seek to achieve this goal by providing outstanding trainees at the University
of Washington with (1) rigorous training in cutting edge research focused on biological mechanisms of healthy
aging, (2) exposure to, and the ability to critically evaluate, the breadth of knowledge, concepts, and
approaches important in the field, and (3) the mentoring and skill sets necessary to achieve career success
and become future scientific leaders. The program will support 6 pre- and 6 post-doctoral trainees. Our
training program for both pre-and post-doctorates provides a rich environment in which we build upon the
considerable strengths of our Faculty and our participating Departments and Programs. This includes aging-
related courses, journal club, trainee research presentations, seminar series and support for attendance at
national aging-focused meetings. We provide continuity of training by typically providing support for 3-4 (pre-
doc) or 2-3 (post-doc) years. Predoctoral candidates ordinarily begin near the end of their 2nd year of graduate
training and post-docs in their 1st year of post-graduate training. Trainees from this program will become skilled
and motivated to work to increase the understanding of the underlying mechanisms responsible for the
processes that contribute to the burden of disease in aging, as well as contributing to the discovery of new
interventions to prevent or reverse them.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9934693
- **Project number:** 1T32AG066574-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
- **Principal Investigator:** MATT KAEBERLEIN
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $722,865
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-05-01 → 2025-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9934693

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9934693, Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging Training Grant (1T32AG066574-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9934693. Licensed CC0.

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