Cedars-Sinai, UCLA, and USC Partner on $6.5M NIH Grant on Aging Research

The funding will support a five-year initiative to expand aging-focused clinical trials aimed at improving quality of life for older adults

Cedars-Sinai, UCLA, and the University of Southern California have received a $6.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Aging to establish a Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center in Los Angeles.

The funding will support a five-year initiative to expand aging-focused clinical trials aimed at improving quality of life for older adults, joining a national network of 15 research institutions.

The Los Angeles Pepper Center will concentrate on extending healthspan—the period of life free from chronic diseases that impair independence—by exploring interventions targeting biological aging processe