Aging Research

Program information

Popular name

(Aging)

Assistance listing number

93.866

Agency

Department of Health and Human Services

Sub-agency

National Institutes of Health

Categories & sub-categories

Health - Health Research - General
Health - Prevention and Control
Health - Specialized Health Research and Training

Assistance types

Project Grants

Eligible applicants

Federally Recognized lndian Tribal Governments
Individual/Family
Local (includes State-designated lndian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals
Minority group
Native American Organizations (includes lndian groups, cooperatives, corporations, partnerships, associations)
Non-Government - General
Other private institutions/organizations
Other public institution/organization
Private nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals)
Profit organization
Public nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals)
Quasi-public nonprofit institution/organization
Small business (less than 500 employees)
Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans)
State
State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals)
U.S. Territories and possessions
U.S. Territories and possessions (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals)

Eligible beneficiaries

Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
Graduate Student
Local
Native American Organizations
Other private institution/organization
Other public institution/organization
Private nonprofit institution/organization
Profit organization
Public nonprofit institution/organization
Scientist/Researchers
Small business
State
Student/Trainee
U.S. Citizen
U.S. Territories

Program objective

To encourage biomedical, social, and behavioral research and research training directed toward greater understanding of the aging process and the diseases, special problems, and needs of people as they age. The National Institute on Aging has established programs to pursue these goals. The Division of Aging Biology emphasizes understanding the basic biological processes of aging. The Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology supports research to improve the abilities of health care practitioners to respond to the diseases and other clinical problems of older people. The Division of Behavioral and Social Research supports research that will lead to greater understanding of the social, cultural, economic and psychological factors that affect both the process of growing old and the place of older people in society. The Division of Neuroscience fosters research concerned with the age-related changes in the nervous system as well as the related sensory, perceptual, and cognitive processes associated with aging and has a special emphasis on Alzheimer's disease. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program: To expand and improve the SBIR program; to increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from Federal research and development; to increase small business participation in Federal research and development; and to foster and encourage participation of socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and women-owned small business concerns in technological innovation. Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program: To stimulate and foster scientific and technological innovation through cooperative research development carried out between small business concerns and research institutions; to foster technology transfer between small business concerns and research institutions; to increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from Federal research and development; and to foster and encourage participation of socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and women-owned small business concerns in technological innovation.

Program obligations, by FY (2022 - 2024)

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Authorizing statutes

Small Business Research and Development Enhancement Act of 1992. Pub. L. 102, 564.
IV, F, 487, National Institutes Reform Act of 2006. 120 Stat. 3675. Pub. L. 109, 482.
IV, C, 444,445,445 A-F, Public Health Service Act. Pub. L. 99, 158. 42 U.S.C. § 285.
III, A, 301, Public Health Service Act. Pub. L. 78, 410. 42 U.S.C. § 241.
IV, F, 487, Public Health Service Act. Pub. L. 100, 607. 42 U.S.C. § 288.