Limited Submission Opportunity: NIH Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers Program (P30 Clinical Trial Optional) 2025
URL: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-26-025.html
OBJECTIVES
The Claude D. Pepper Older American Independence Centers (OAIC) program was initiated to establish centers of excellence in research and research education to increase scientific knowledge leading to better ways to maintain or restore independence in older persons. Awards are for institutions to develop or strengthen their programs focusing on, and sustaining progress in, a key area of aging research. Applicants should identify an area of focus in which progress could contribute to greater independence for substantial populations of older persons and offer opportunities for education in aging research.
An OAIC proposal may focus on a broad range of topics, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Aging-related issues concerning a specific condition contributing to loss of independence in older persons (e.g., role of aging changes in the etiology of the condition; special issues in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of the condition in old age; complications, disability, or symptoms from the condition found principally in older persons)
- Causes, assessment, prevention, and treatment (including rehabilitation) of a specific type of disability in older persons
- Causes, prevention, and treatment of geriatric syndromes (e.g., sarcopenia, falls, incontinence) that are related to multiple pathologies and/or disabilities
- Specific aging-related physiologic changes, other risk factors, and/or interventions (e.g., physical activity) that affect risk for multiple conditions or disabilities in old age
- Interactions of multiple diseases, disabilities, and interventions (e.g., medications) in older persons and their relationship to risk of morbidity, progression of disability, and efficacy of prevention or treatment strategies
- Factors contributing to amelioration or delay of multiple deleterious aging changes by modulating risk factors or fundamental aging mechanisms
FUNDING INFORMATION
Up to $925,000 annually in direct costs for up to 5 years.
ELIGIBILITY
Any individual with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the PI is invited to work with their organization to develop an application for support.
The NIH will not accept highly overlapping applications from the same institution at the same time.
INTERNAL SELECTION
BU may forward up to two proposals (one each from the Medical Campus and Charles River Campus). Interested investigators should submit the following materials via InfoReady Review by: 10/1/2025
- Center Description explaining the vision and goals of the proposed center. Citations are not required (500 words maximum)
DEADLINES
Internal Materials Due: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 by 11:59 pm ET
Anticipated Notification Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
External Materials Due: Monday, October 20, 2025