Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence
What is The Nathan shock Center of Excellence?
This Core Center Grant program was established in 1995 to enhance well-developed institutional programs in basic research on aging. Centers are renewed every 5 years, if funds are available and enough high quality proposals are received in response to a Request for Applications.
What do the Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence do?
The Centers provide leadership in the pursuit of basic research into the biology of aging. They do so through a Research Development Core which administers small start-up funds locally, and organizes national annual meetings to highlight specific areas of research.
In addition, each Nathan Shock Center has several specialized cores that provide services to Shock Center members, as well as for-fee services to the community at large. The cores are different in each Center, depending on the strengths of each Institution. Information about these cores can be found by clicking on the links to the right.
Where are the Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence?
The Biology of Aging Program (BAP) of the NIA funds Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging across the U.S. There are currently 5 funded Centers, in California (The Buck Institute), Maine (The Jackson Laboratory), Michigan (University of Michigan), Texas (The University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio) and Washington (University of Washington).
