An Evening Reception at AGS
Please join UPMC and the Division of Geriatric Medicine for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres during the American Geriatrics Society annual meeting in Portland.
The Pitt Innovation Challenge 2019
The Pitt Innovation Challenge (PInCh®) 2019 is seeking your bold solution to an important health problem. We encourage proposals from any discipline and on any topic that impacts health.
The Epigenome Across the Lifespan
The Epigenome Across the Lifespan conference is scheduled for Friday, May 3 at the University of Pittsburgh, University Club from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Registration is required.
AGING Initiative Pilot Funding Opportunity! “P-2-R” Award Applications Open Now!
The HCSRN-OAICs AGING Initiative seeks pilot project proposals designed to facilitate collaborations between Health Care Systems Research Network (HCSRN) and Older Americans Independence Centers (OAICs) investigators, particularly early-stage investigators as principal investigators.
Prescriptions for healthy food might save lives – and money
Healthy food prescriptions written for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries might lower the risk of costly chronic illnesses, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and at the same time lower the costs of care, a new study suggests.
Will We Have a Treatment for Aging?
Dr. Toren Finkel discusses the topic of aging and how to recognize aging as a risk factor for multiple diseases, how to increase patient outcomes by modulating the biology of aging, and how certain medications could be used in anti-aging strategies.