Research

How individuals age will continue to be greatly impacted by the medical and health research being conducted today. While living well and exercising is important, many American are also counting on research to find new and better ways to treat, diagnose, prevent, and cure a number of diseases and disorders that present themselves as a person ages. The National Institute of Health (NIH) is key to advancing this research.

The Alliance for Aging Research believes that providing appropriate funding for the NIH is the only way that our country will be able to meet the health care challenges confronting it. Rather than debating how to cover the nation's health care bills, the dialogue needs to shift to how we prevent those bills in the first place. With the aging of the Baby Boom generation, this is more urgent than ever.

• Federal Funding
• Regenerative Medicine

Related Publications

• Press Release
  Experts Call for Investing in Longevity Science to Bolster Older Americans' Contributions
  
  June 13, 2008
  Related topics: Aging Research  Longevity  Medical Innovation  Research  
  
  
  With the nation’s economy uppermost in many Americans’ minds, the Alliance for Aging Research explores the economic benefits from increased investment in longevity science in its most recent podcast series. The podcast series is part of the Alliance’s SAGE Crossroads website, a forum that explores emerging issues of human aging and longevity.
• Testimony
  Fiscal Year 2008 Appropriations for the National Institute on Aging:
  U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies
  
  March 30, 2007
  Related topics: Aging Research  Federal Funding  Policy  Research  
  
  
  Daniel Perry of the Alliance for Aging Research, and Carol Schutz of the Gerontological Society of America, submitted this testimony on behalf of the Friends of the National Institute on Aging. The testimony called for a 6.7% overall increase for the National Institutes of Health for FY 2008 and additional resources for NIA in order to avoid continued cuts in existing grants and to sustain training and research opportunities for new investigators.
• Press Release
  President's Budget Lacks Funds to Stem 'Silver Tsunami'
  
  February 7, 2007
  Related topics: Federal Funding  Health  Medical Innovation  Policy  Research  
  
  
  President's Budget Lacks Funds to Stem 'Silver Tsunami' of Age-Related Chronic Diseases

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