Center on Aging and Health
The Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health

Research Career Development Core
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Overview
The purpose and function of the Research Career Development Core (RCDC) of the Johns Hopkins Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) is to identify, attract and select junior faculty and to provide them with training, mentoring and translational research skills to become leaders in the development and implementation of research in the field of frailty and in the development of interventions that preserve independence for older adults.

The OAIC emphasizes the development of skills required to apply basic research findings to clinical investigation and interventions, to translate clinical findings into mechanistic studies and to disseminate the results of clinical investigation to the health provider and the broader community, with the aim of decreasing the likelihood of the development of frailty and improving clinical outcomes for frail older adults.

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In the News

Findings support aggregate abnormality with aging in multiple physiological systems may be an important cause of frailty and late life vulnerability

Drs. Varadhan and Chaves use principal components analysis to determine that cardiac autonomic control is impaired in frailty

Dr. Walston to present keynote speech at 3rd Annual William R. Hazzard, MD, Symposium on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

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Announcements

The Johns Hopkins OAIC is currently accepting proposals for small pilot projects. Please contact us for more information.

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