Geroscience is a research field that seeks to understand the relationship between aging and age-related diseases and how it affects quality of life.
Alliance Announces Partnership with American Aging Association
Published July 3, 2013
July 3rd, 2013 Washington, DC – The Alliance for Aging Research and the American Aging Association today announced a strategic alliance to share resources drawing greater attention to promising research to slow, prevent and cure the diseases of aging.
The Alliance for Aging Research will provide staff and administrative support for the American Aging Association, known as AGE, to grow the group’s membership and will supervise the Awards and Memorial Funds programs of AGE. The AGE organization has contracted the Alliance to plan and carry out its annual meeting, which will take place May 30-June 2 next year in San Antonio, Texas.
Both organizations will remain autonomous.
Dan Perry, President of the Alliance, said, “This collaboration joins complementary resources of two organizations helping to add to the strength of scientific efforts in aging research.”
Janko Nikolich-Zugich, MD, Ph.D., Chairman of AGE noted, “Connecting the research and the leaders in aging with the Alliance for Aging Research will increase the impact of AGE as an organization and draw attention and support for the important work of our scientists pursuing better answers to the challenges of population aging.
About the Alliance
The Alliance for Aging Research, www.agingresearch.org, is the leading non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the pace of scientific discoveries and their application to vastly improve the universal human experience of aging and health. The Alliance was founded in 1986 in Washington, DC, and has since become a valued advocacy organization and a respected influential voice with policymakers.
About AGE
The American Aging Association (AGE), www.americanagingassociation.org, is a non-profit expert organization in the basic mechanisms of aging, founded in 1970. AGE is dedicated to harnessing the power of basic biomedical research to maintain, restore and increase functional life span in older adults through research, education, and advocacy in the field of biomedical gerontology