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  • Gerardo Moreno: Speaking from experience
    May 21, 2011

    (Published in LINKS: Minority Research & Training - Spring 2011) When award-winning actor and advocate for clear science communication, Alan Alda, talks to young scientists about ways to effectively describe their work to a...

  • 2010 NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence
    May 21, 2011

    (Published in LINKS: Minority Research & Training - Spring 2011) NIA intramural research fellows represent the best and brightest students from across the United States and worldwide. The NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE...

  • Talking about Alzheimer’s disease using the words of Latinos and non-Latinos
    May 21, 2011

    (Published in LINKS: Minority Research & Training - Spring 2011) Effective health communications is not just about clearly expressing your health message. You must deliver the message using language that literally and figuratively...

  • Following IRP Fellows: Making the transition from postdoc to career researcher
    May 21, 2011

    (Published in LINKS: Minority Research & Training - Spring 2011) You are on the seemingly paved road to a tenure track research position at a university. You excelled in your science courses and earned your Ph.D. You even landed a...

  • Largest genetic study to date in Parkinson’s disease reveals risk genes
    February 19, 2011

    Parkinson’s disease, a progressive movement disorder, was historically considered a nongenetic disease. Now, in the largest genome-wide association study to date of Parkinson’s disease, scientists show genetics play a...

  • VA expands caregiver support program developed by NIA-funded researchers
    February 15, 2011

    The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is expanding support nationally to caregivers of veterans with Alzheimer’s disease with a program developed by NIA-funded researchers. The REACH VA (Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer...

  • Come dance with me
    December 1, 2010

    (Published in LINKS: Minority Research & Training - Fall 2010) Some people remember their high school prom as the perfect party to celebrate the end of an era. Others do not fondly recall their evening. For older adults living in or...

  • Poverty and race as risk factors for kidney disease in African Americans
    December 1, 2010

    (Published in LINKS: Minority Research & Training - Fall 2010) Poverty may predict chronic kidney disease (CKD) in African Americans but not whites according to a study recently conducted by investigators at the NIA, Johns Hopkins...

  • Come dance with me
    December 1, 2010

    (Published in LINKS: Minority Research & Training - Fall 2010) Some people remember their high school prom as the perfect party to celebrate the end of an era. Others do not fondly recall their evening. For older adults living in or...

  • Poverty and race as risk factors for kidney disease in African Americans
    December 1, 2010

    (Published in LINKS: Minority Research & Training - Fall 2010) Poverty may predict chronic kidney disease (CKD) in African Americans but not whites according to a study recently conducted by investigators at the NIA, Johns Hopkins...

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