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Welcome to EPA’s Aging Initiative Website. The website provides a wealth of information about the Agency’s efforts to protect the environmental health of older persons.

The United States is a rapidly aging nation. By 2030, the number of older persons is expected to double to more than 70 million. Click here to read more.

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Aging Initiative

Help Us to Shape the Future:
A National Agenda for the Environment and the Aging

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EPA Funding Opportunities

Indoor Environments: Reducing Public Exposure to Indoor Pollutants. Deadline: September 14, 2009 Read more...

San Francisco Bay Area Water Quality Improvement Funds. Deadline September 23, 2009 Read more...

Clean Air Research Centers. Deadline: November 16, 2009 Read more...

FY 2010 National Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program. Deadline November 20, 2009 Read more...

Other Funding Opportunities

Innovative Toxicity Assays of Pollutants, Therapeutics, and Drugs (SBIR [R43/R44]) Deadline: September 07, 2009 Read more...

Scholarship Opportunities for Doctoral Dissertations on Healthy Community Design or on Climate Change
Deadline: September 8, 2009. Read more...

National Institutes of Health. Development and Translation of Medical Technologies that Reduce Health Disparities [SBIR (R43/44). Deadline: September 22, 2009 Read more...

Bioenergetics, Fatigability, and Activity Limitations In Aging (R01) Deadline: September 25, 2009. Read more...

Mechanisms Underlying The Links Between Psychosocial Stress, Aging, The Brain and The Body (R01)
Deadline: September 25, 2009. Read more...

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars
Deadline: October 2, 2009 Read more...

Mechanisms, Measurement, and Management Of Pain In Aging: From Molecular To Clinical (R01)
Deadline: January 25, 2010. Read more...

Development And Validation Of Disease Biomarkers (R01)
Deadline: January 25, 2010. Read more...

Thyroid in Aging R21. Deadline: January 7, 2011. Read more...

NIH Alzheimer’s Disease Pilot Clinical Trials.
Closing Date: January 8, 2011. Read more

Functional Links between the Immune System, Brain Function and Behavior (R21). Closing: May 16, 2011. Read more...

Aging Research Dissertation Awards to Increase Diversity (R36). Deadline: January 7, 2011 Read more...

Mechanisms of Functional Recovery After Stroke (R01). Opening May 5, 2008 Closing: May 7, 2011. Read more...

Transdisciplinary Research on Fatigue and Fatigability in Aging (R01). Deadline: May 7, 2011 Read more...

Using Systems Science Methodologies to Protect and Improve Population Health (R21). Deadline: September 7, 2011 Read more...

Translational Research at the Aging/Cancer Interface (TRACI) (R01). Deadline: September 7, 2011 Read more...

The National Institutes for Health announces a series of grants related to HIV/AIDS in older adults.
Read more about PA-09-017 Closing Date: 01/07/2012
Read more about PA-09-018 Closing Date: 01/07/2012
Read more about PA-09-019

Promoting Careers in Aging and Health Disparities Research (K01). Deadline: May 07, 2012 Read more...

National Institutes of Health. Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R21)
Link to full announcement.
Letters of Intent Receipt Dates: (new applications) September 16, 2009; May 16, 2010; January 16, 2011; September 16, 2011; May 16, 2012.
Letters of Intent Receipt Dates: ( renewal, resubmission, and revision applications) October 16, 2009; June 16, 2010; February 16, 2011; October 16, 2011; June 16, 2012.
Application Due Dates: (new applications): October 16, 2009; June 16, 2010; February 16, 2011; October 16, 2011; June 16, 2012 (alternating standard R21 receipt dates).
Application Due Dates: (renewal, resubmission, and revision applications): November 16, 2009; July 16, 2010; March 16, 2011; November 16, 2011; July 16, 2012
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