Training Opportunities

Three Postdoctoral positions are available on our NIA funded Institutional Research Training Grant titled, “Harvard Translational Research in Aging Training Program”.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents at the time of application.

Award recipients may be eligible to apply for the NIH Loan Repayment Program. Additional information regarding this program can be found at: https://www.lrp.nih.gov/

This funding supports salary, fringe, mentored research activities, coursework, seminars and up to $2,500 to defray childcare costs.

Areas of research include the following: 

• Mechanisms and preventive interventions for falls and mobility impairments (e.g. transcranial direct current stimulation, devices, and senolytic drugs) (Manor, Lipsitz)
• Gait and balance (Manor, Lipsitz)
• Vascular aging and blood pressure regulation including cerebrovascular pathophysiology and imaging (Lipsitz, Manor)
• Epidemiology, omics/bioinformatics, microbiome, imaging, biomechanics, and nutritional aspects of bone, joint, and muscle (Kiel, Samelson, Sahni, Berry, Yau, Bouxsein)
• Spinal degeneration, osteoarthritis, disc disease, hyperkyphosis, vertebral fracture (Samelson)
• Vascular aging and the skeleton (Samelson)
• Pharmacoepidemiology and trials in long term care (Berry)
• Frailty and outcomes of drug therapy, surgical procedure, and health services (Kim)
• Palliative Care / Health Policy / Shared Decision Making (Mitchell, Ritchie)
• Delirium measurement, pathophysiology, and interventions (Inouye, Marcantonio, Vasunilashorn)
• Diseases in older Adults: Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, Diabetes, Parkinson’s, Cardiovascular Disease, Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis (Lipsitz, Pascual-Leone, Samelson, Manor, Kiel, Sahni, Berry, Yau, Hyman, Goldstein)
• Biology of Aging (Sinclair, Lipsitz, Kiel)
• Data science and software development as applied to observational and interventional science in aging (Travison)
• Integrative therapies for older adults (Wayne)

Applications require a mentor. 
For those without a mentor and/or a clearly defined project, please send a letter of intent so we can help match you to a mentor who can help you define a research project.

If you already have a mentor or are a third year applicant, a letter of intent is not required.

1. Letters of intent are due Friday, November 15, 2024 at 5pm. Letters should include: 
   - Area of interest and potential project title
   - CV or NIH Biosketch
   - Expected start date between 5/1/25-09/30/25.
   - Name of mentor or lab within the HMS community (include affiliated hospitals) that you are interested in working with (feel free to go to the Harvard Catalyst website for further information)
   - Letter of Intent guidelines
    
2. Final applications are due Friday March 14, 2025 at 5pm.
   - Application guidelines
   - Application cover sheet

The Harvard Translational Research in Aging Postdoctoral T32 Training Program is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging. The goal of the program is to provide highly qualified MD or PhD fellows with outstanding geriatric basic science, clinical, and health care training, under the mentorship of experienced investigators in geriatric medicine and gerontology. Trainees are appointed as research fellows through Harvard Medical School and have access to resources and expertise through the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research. 

Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents at the time of application.

T32 Logic Model

Our program and its ongoing evaluation and quality improvement is guided by a Logic Model that sets forth program objectives, activities to achieve them, and expected outcomes.

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Programs for Trainees

Trainees will have the opportunity to participate in the following programs:  

Advanced Aging Research Training Seminar Series (AARTSS) 

The main objective of AARTSS is to provide practical instruction to trainees conducting aging-related research at the Marcus Institute, the Division of Gerontology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Harvard Multicampus Geriatric Medicine Fellowship program, and throughout the Harvard Medical School community. 

Both faculty and participants represent a diversity of research areas that include biological, physiological, patient-oriented, and epidemiologic research. Thus, another goal of AARTSS is to provide a venue for cross-fertilization of ideas among investigators conducting aging-related research in various disciplines. 

AARTSS also helps trainees develop skills in communicating across multiple disciplines and use multidisciplinary perspectives and tools to design and conduct translational research.

View a sample AARTS curriculum.

Geriatric Interdisciplinary Grand Rounds

The Geriatric Interdisciplinary Grand Rounds lectures cover a broad range of timely and clinically important topics. Speakers are drawn from the Marcus Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, and other regional and national institutions.

​Harvard Catalyst Courses

Harvard Catalyst offers numerous online and in-person courses, as well as training programs ranging from short programs that provide an overview of clinical and translational research to multi-year, advanced programs for senior fellows and faculty members.

For more information please contact T32IFAR@hsl.harvard.edu

Marcus Institute faculty provide summer research experiences for medical and predoctoral students by partnering with the National MSTAR Program and the Greater Boston T32 MSTAR Scholars Program at Harvard Medical School.

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Internships at the Marcus Institute introduce students to clinical and translational research. By observing and participating in our current projects, students gain important practical experience.

Students interested in pursuing an internship should contact the faculty member whose work is of interest and determine if there is a suitable mentoring opportunity available.  

Find a Faculty Mentor