Post-Doctoral Research Training
Sponsors:
Center for Aging, UAB Sponsoring Schools, John A. Hartford Foundation, and NIH
Summary:
The Center for Aging supports research training activities for post-doctoral students
at UAB through both informal and formal mechanisms. Senior faculty affiliated with
the Center serve as mentors for more trainees at all of these levels. (Place link
to the list of Center for Aging faculty and their research interests here). Interactions
with senior UAB faculty and visiting experts are facilitated through the weekly
scientific seminars, an annual meeting, interdisciplinary scientific retreats, and
through visits by external review groups such as the Center for Aging external advisory
committee.
Post-doctoral students can also pursue mentored research training through the Clinical
and Behavioral Gerontology Research Training Program or other NIH-funded research
training grants held by faculty affiliated with the Center for Aging. Post-doctoral
trainees with medical and other clinical degrees (e.g. dentistry, nursing, occupational
therapy, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, psychology, or social work) can
also support for research training through a VA Geriatric Special Fellowship Program
offered by the Birmingham/Atlanta Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center
(GRECC).
Geriatric Medicine fellows can obtain support for research training through the
Hartford Foundation-funded Southeast Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine
(SCEGM). The Center for Aging Intramural Grant Program also supports research training
opportunities for post-doctoral trainees involved in research funded by the pilot
grants.
Services:
Training in basic, clinical, patient-oriented, outcomes, social & behavioral, translational,
public policy, and neuroscience research in aging is available through the research
programs of affiliated senior faculty members.
Opportunities for faculty involvement:
Senior faculty members are encouraged to participate as mentors in both informal
and formal programs, and to assist in applying for extramural funding for such research
training opportunities.
Key contact person:
Richard M. Allman, M.D.
Director, Center for Aging
CH-19 201, zip 2041
(tel) (205) 934-9261
(fax) (205) 934-7354
Leaders and key staff:
- Richard M. Allman, M.D., Director
- Karlene Ball, Ph.D., Associate Director, Social & Behavioral Science
- Marcas Bamman, Ph.D., Associate Director, Translational Research
- John Mountz, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Director, Basic Science
- David Sweatt, Ph.D., Associate Director, Neuroscience