National Institute on Aging

National Institute on Aging Type: Research and Development Agencies (Sub-organization) Parent organization: National Institutes of Health Employees: 500 Executive: Director Budget: $3.86 billion (Fiscal Year 2023) Address: 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892 (NIH Campus) Website: https://www.nia.nih.gov Creation Legislation: Public Law 89-239, 1965 (Older Americans Act) Wikipedia: National Institute on Aging

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Mission NIA leads the federal effort to support and conduct research on aging and the health and well-being of older people, aiming to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life.

Services Research Funding; Clinical Trials; Alzheimer's Disease Research; Age-Related Disease Studies; Gerontology Education

Regulations

National Institute on Aging
File:National Institute on Aging logo.svg
Agency Overview
Jurisdiction	Federal government of the United States
Agency Executive	Dr. Richard J. Hodes, Director
Parent department	Department of Health and Human Services
Parent agency	National Institutes of Health
Website
nia.nih.gov

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), located in Bethesda, Maryland. The NIA itself is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

The NIA leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. In 1974, under Public Law 93-296, Congress granted authority to form NIA to provide leadership in aging research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs relevant to aging and older people. In January 2011, President Obama signed into law the National Alzheimer’s Project Act, designating the NIA as the primary federal agency on Alzheimer's disease research.

NIA is led by Director, Richard J. Hodes, M.D, and Acting Deputy Director Melinda Kelley, M.D.

Past directors

Past directors from 1975–present

Portrait	Director	Took office	Left office
File:Noimage.svg	Norman Kretchmer (acting)	October 1974	July 1975
File:Noimage.svg	Richard C. Greulich (acting)	July 1975	April 1976
File:Robert N. Butler 2004.jpg	Robert N. Butler	May 1, 1976	July 1982
File:Noimage.svg	Robert L. Ringler	July 16, 1982	June 30, 1983
File:Noimage.svg	T. Franklin Williams	July 1, 1983	July 31, 1991
File:Noimage.svg	Gene D. Cohen (acting)	August 1, 1991	May 31, 1993
File:Richard J. Hodes.png	Richard J. Hodes	June 1, 1993	Present

Mission

NIA's mission is to improve the health and well-being of older Americans through research, and specifically to:

• Support and conduct high-quality research on:
  • Aging processes
  • Age-related diseases
  • Special problems and needs of the aged
• Train and develop highly skilled research scientists from all population groups.
• Develop and maintain state-of-the-art resources to accelerate research progress.
• Disseminate information and communicate with the public and interested groups on health and research advances and on new directions for research.

Programs

NIA sponsors research on aging through extramural and intramural programs. The extramural program funds research and training at universities, hospitals, medical centers, and other public and private organizations nationwide.

One such example is the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers (ADRCs). As of 2022, the NIA funds over 30 centers at medical institutions throughout the United States.

The intramural program conducts basic and clinical research in Baltimore, Maryland, and on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

Eliezer Masliah was appointed head of the National Institute on Aging's Division of Neuroscience in 2016.

See also

• American Federation for Aging Research
• Geroscience
• Life extension

External links

• NIA homepage
• NIA account on USAspending.gov
• The University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology