Sept. 24
Crimmins to Speak on Geroscience
The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) is celebrating 30 years of advancing research to improve health outcomes.
OBSSR is continuing its celebration with a Director’s Webinar featuring Dr. Eileen Crimmins on Sept. 24 from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET. Her talk is titled, “Developing a Geroscience, Medical Science, and Social Science: Explanations for Differences in Aging Health.”
Geroscience hypothesizes that all age-related health outcomes are linked to a set of biological processes that collectively produce health deterioration with age. Medical science has identified an increasingly wide array of risk factors for age-related health outcomes.
Using insights from geroscience and medical science, Crimmins—professor at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology—will discuss how the social environment affects biological processes to produce differential rates of aging.
To register for the webinar, see: obssr.od.nih.gov/30yearswebinarCrimmins. For a list of other 30th anniversary events, visit obssr.od.nih.gov/30years.