Alliance for Aging Research: Geroscience Interest Group (GSIG)

Geroscience Interest Group (GSIG) Conference

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About the GSIG

The Geroscience Interest Group (GSIG), launched in October of 2011, is currently under the direction of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and is guided by the shared priorities of the 20 NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) it counts as members.

The goals of the GISG are:

To promote discussion, sharing of ideas and coordination of activities within the NIH, relating to the specific needs of the research community working on mechanisms underlying age-related changes, including those which could lead to increased disease susceptibility.
To raise awareness, both within and outside the NIH, of the relevant role played by aging biology in the development of age-related processes and chronic disease. For this, the GIG plans and funds seminars featuring both internal and external speakers, as well as symposia and workshops.
To develop potential Public/Private partnerships through interactions with scientific societies, industry and other institutions with related interests.
To develop trans-NIH initiatives (PAs, RFAs, Common Fund initiatives or other creative approaches that might present themselves), so as to encourage research on basic biology of aging and its relationship to earlier life events, exposures, and diseases that will advance the goals and vision of the GIG, and which complement and enhance the goals and vision of concerned ICs.

To learn more about the GSIG, click here.