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