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Maxim Dulebenets and Judy Delp win ISL Planning Grants to study older drivers, effects of muscle stretching on PAD

The Institute for Successful Longevity has awarded its 2020 Planning Grants to two multidisciplinary research teams led by Maxim A. Dulebenets of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and Judy Delp of the College of Medicine.

Each ISL Planning Grant provides a $15,500 award in support of research in a new direction or provides continuing support of existing research with the goal of improving the opportunity for successful longevity.

ISL's December 2019 Newsletter

The December 2019 edition of the Institute for Successful Longevity’s Newsletter is now available.

Articles in the ISL Newsletter:

  • How old is too old to run for president?
  • Walter Boot awarded $4.6-million grant for center to focus on older adults with cognitive impairment

  • Virginia Tech aging expert talks on elder abuse

Gerontological Society of America highlights ISL and InnoVenture Weekend

The latest newsletter of the Gerontological Society of America mentions the Institute for Successful Longevity’s participation in InnoVenture Weekend, a student creative-challenge exercise here at Florida State University.

Lucinda Graven named Fellow of the American Heart Association

Lucinda Graven, a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity and an assistant professor in the College of Nursing, has been elected a Fellow of the American Heart Association.

She received the honor at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia in mid-November.

Walter Boot awarded $4.6-million grant for new center to focus on older adults with cognitive impairment

Walter Boot, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychology and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, and a team of researchers from FSU, the University of Illinois and Weill Cornell Medicine have been awarded a $4.6-million grant to establish a center focused on developing technologies to improve the lives of older adults.

ISL researcher receives $2.9M from NIH to examine peripheral artery disease

 

Panagiotis Koutakis, assistant professor of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, has received a $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a more effective treatment and diagnosis process for peripheral artery disease (PAD), a condition that afflicts 8.5 million people in the United States.

Muscles Matter: ISL Newsletter interview

Faculty Affiliate Bradley Gordon talks about his research in the latest ISL Newsletter: ISL NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2019.