New Centres Plan For Healthy Ageing

摘要

Competition is heating up for researchers in the rapidly growing field of ageing research. Some two dozen faculty-level scientists and postdocs are being recruited by new or expanding US institutes.rn"Ageing is hot because it covers almost every aspect of biology and underlies most major human diseases," says Andrew Dillin, director of the new Center for Aging Research at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.rnFunded by a $5-million grant from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research in Carpinteria, California, the centre will support up to three new research groups. It will build on the Salk Institute's research strengths in metabolism, stem-cell biology, ageing of dividing cells and ageing of organisms. The centre is recruiting seven or eight postdocs to work on a joint project in two labs. The funding will also accommodate two or three visiting scholars each year. Staying for three to six months, they will build collaborative research projects involving multiple labs, and organize a symposium on a topic of their choice.