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National Advisory Council on Aging Meeting Agenda -- January 21 – 22, 2019

One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Meeting
Tuesday, January 21 – Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Building 45, Conference Room E1/E2
Day-of-the-Meeting Contact Phone: 202-380-6412

Tuesday, January 21

3:00 to 5:00 p.m. – This portion of the meeting is closed to the Public.

This portion of the meeting is closed to the public in accordance with the provisions set forth in section 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S. Code and Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2).

Review of Applications: Dr. Robin Barr

Wednesday, January 22

8:00 a.m. to 1:15 pm - This portion of the meeting is open to the Public. This meeting will be videocast from 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.: http://videocast.nih.gov

8:00 to 8:30 a.m.

  1. Call to Order
    Dr. Richard Hodes
    1. Director's Status Report
    2. Future Meeting Dates:

      May 26-27, 2020 (Tues.-Wed.), Building 31
      September 8-9, 2020 (Tues.-Wed.), Building 45
      January 12-13, 2021 (Tues.-Wed.), Building 31
      May 11-12, 2021 (Tues.-Wed.), Building 31
      September 14-15, 2021 (Tues.-Wed.), Building 45
       
    3. Consideration of Minutes of Last Meeting

8:30 to 9:00 a.m.

  1. Report: Task Force on Minority Aging Research
    Dr. J. Taylor Harden
    Dr. David Bennett

9:00 to 9:50 a.m.

  1. Report: Working Group on Program
    Dr. Kritchevsky


    Meetings/Initiative Developments
    1. Recommendations from Past Meetings (None)
    2. CTAP Report (None)
    3. RFA/RFP Concept Clearance
    4. DBSR Review (Dr. Crimmins)

9:50 to 10:00 a.m.

  1. A Word from Dr. Barr on his Retirement
    Dr. Robin A. Barr

10:00 to 10:30 a.m.

  1. Program Highlights (DBSR)
    Dr. Lisbeth Nielsen
    Mara Mather, Ph.D.

    Professor of Gerontology and Psychology
    University of Southern California
    “How arousal increases neural gain and attentional selectivity”

10:30 to 10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45 to 11:15 a.m.

  1. Program Highlights (DN)
    Dr. Eliezer Masliah
    Frank M. Longo, M.D., Ph.D.

    George and Lucy Becker Professor and Chair
    Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
    Stanford University School of Medicine
    “A new therapeutic approach for Alzheimer’s: from mechanism discovery to creation of a novel therapeutic class to human trials”

11:15 to 11:45 a.m.

  1. Council Guest Speaker
    Dr. Susan Gregurick

    Associate Director for Data Science, NIH
    “Emerging Draft Data-Sharing Policy”

11:45 to 12:15 p.m.

  1. Program Highlight (DGCG)
    Dr. Evan Hadley
    Bradley Willcox, M.D.

    Professor and Director of Research
    Department of Geriatric Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii
    “Advancing from a polygenic to an omnigenic view of human longevity: Discovery of a FOXO3 driven gene resilience network on chromosome 66”

12:15 to 12:30 p.m.

Break/Working Lunch

12:30 to 1:00 p.m.

  1. Program Highlight (DAB)
    Dr. Felipe Sierra
    Bérénice Benayoun, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences
    University of Southern California
    “Genomic and epigenomic regulation of vertebrate aging”

1:00 to 1:15 p.m.

  1. Intramural Program Report
    Dr. Luigi Ferrucci

    Scientific Director, IRP, NIA
    Dr. Andrew Singleton
    Laboratory of Neurogenetics

1:15 to 2:00 p.m. - This portion of the meeting is closed to the Public.

This portion of the meeting is closed to the public in accordance with the provisions set forth in section 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S. Code and Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2).

  1. Review of Intramural Research Program
    Dr. Luigi Ferrucci

2:00 p.m.

Adjournment

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