Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health has received an $11.8 million federal grant to establish the Center for Aging with Serious Illness, a multidisciplinary research program focused on older adults with serious illness.
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the NIH, awarded the grant through its Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence program, which builds research capacity in states that have historically received lower levels of NIH funding, according to a July 16 Dartmouth Health news release shared with Becker’s.
The award includes a $2.7 million allocation to Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine to support its role in the center.
The center plans to build a network of clinical, behavioral and health services researchers and support early career clinician-scientists as they transition into independent investigators, Angelo Volandes, MD, Dartmouth Health’s interim chief research officer and co-principal investigator of CASI, said in the release. A biostatistics, ethics, data management, research design and community engagement core will provide technical support for the center’s research and pilot projects.
“Given our location between two of the oldest population states per capita — New Hampshire and Vermont — Dartmouth Health is uniquely qualified to be the home of CASI,” Nathan Goldstein, MD, chair of Dartmouth Health’s department of medicine and co-principal investigator of CASI, said in the release.
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