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Although everyone in the world gets older all the time, basic science research helps us continue to learn about fundamental biology and how it can affect the process of aging.
As a geroscience basic science researcher, you can take advantage of innovative research laboratories and services at OU Health Oklahoma Center for Geroscience in Oklahoma City. With a focus on the biology that plays a crucial role in aging and age-related diseases, basic science research improves our understanding of the aging process through a wide range of topics, projects, studies and themes, such as:
New knowledge from basic science research illuminates potential routes to target for treating age-related diseases and conditions.
At the Oklahoma Center for Geroscience, three program projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide support for the geroscience research initiative and researchers:
When you become a researcher at Oklahoma Center for Geroscience, you also may gain access to extensive research facilities and cores through the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC).
As a clinician, educator or researcher working in the area of age-related disease, you’re encouraged to become a member of the Oklahoma Center for Geroscience. Join our0 broad effort to better understand the aging process, reduce disease and improve quality of life as we all get older.
View our leadership team and find OU Health geroscience clinical faculty.
Contact us to learn how you can partner with OU Health Oklahoma Center for Geroscience.
Oklahoma Center for Geroscience is funded in part by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.
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