Center for Aging and Human Development

Postdoctoral Research Training Program in Aging

TRAINING GRANT FUNDING UPDATE: The Duke Aging Center Research Training Program competing continuation has not been funded for this NIA cycle. We plan to resubmit the proposal and hope to be funded in the next round. Because NIA accepts training grant proposals only at a May submission date, we will know more about next year's funding in January or February 2010

The goal of our postdoctoral research training program is to produce highly skilled research scientists who have the potential for leadership in gerontological research. In the Duke Research Training Program (RTP), much of the training for each fellow is provided by that person’s faculty mentor(s) in a research apprenticeship program. A fellow carries out his/her own research as a junior colleague in the mentor’s research program or laboratory. In addition to working in their mentors’ programs, all fellows attend a weekly interdisciplinary didactic seminar.