Please click the following sections for information on ongoing research and resources in each of the OAIC Cores:
Pilot and Exploratory Studies Core
The overall goal of Pilot and Exploratory Studies Core (PESC) is to cultivate and support cutting edge pilot and exploratory studies that will advance the development of effective prevention and/or therapies for frailty and hence facilitate independence in older adults. The PESC provides funding, access to biostatistical, biological, and clinical research core resources, and mentoring and oversight to completion of pilot and exploratory studies.
The primary purpose of the Research Education Component (REC), formerly known as the Research Career Development Core (RCDC), is to increase the workforce of experts dedicated to scholarship on frailty and its translation into strategies to increase independence in older adults.
Leadership and Administrative Core
Scientific leadership, organization and infrastructure to lead and oversee the frailty-focused activities of the JHU OAIC.
Resource Core 1: Biostatistics Core
The Biostatistics Core (OAIC Resource Core 1, or RC-1), seeks to empower our institutions’ scientists with the quantitative support and expertise needed to create and translate into clinical practice the next generations of research on frailty. The functions supplied by the Biostatistics Core of the Johns Hopkins Older Americans Independence Center have been central in the creation of significant research, training and practice paradigms for addressing frailty in older adults.
Resource Core 2: Biological Mechanisms Core
The rationale for the Biological Mechanisms Core (Resource Core 2, or RC-2) is to provide the expertise, technology access and infrastructure, mentoring, and training necessary to facilitate the highest quality etiologic research in frailty.
Resource Core 3: Clinical Translation Core
In order to more effectively meet JHU OAIC’s goal of translating frailty-related etiological discoveries into clinical studies that help maintain independence in older adults, and to overcome the substantial barriers to success in clinical investigation for junior investigators, the leadership of this OAIC made a strategic decision to develop this resource core.
Resource Core 4: Technological Assessment and Solutions
Resource Core 4: Technological Assessment and Solutions
