News Release

IOA Research Stimulus Grants in Aging Grantee (Janet Freburger, PT, PhD) Receives Funding from National Institutes of Health

April 24, 2008

The goal of the Research Stimulus Grants in Aging program at the Institute is to build greater strength in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary aging research on the UNC Chapel Hill campus. The first major success of this program comes as we enter our third year of the program. Janet Freburger, PT, PhD, with her project entitled, "Disparities in Post-Acute Rehabilitation Care," has recently received an R-21 from the National Institutes of Health (R21 HD057980-01).

Dr. Freburger and Dr. Malcolm Cutchin, her mentor for the IOA Research Stimulus Grants Program, were able to assemble an interdisciplinary team which includes Janet Freburger, PT, PhD (Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and Division of Physical therapy); Malcolm Cutchin, PhD (Division of Occupational Science, Institute on Aging, Department of Geography), Lloyd Edwards, PhD (Department of Biostatistics, Institute on Aging), and Mark Holmes, PhD (Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, North Carolina Institute of Medicine). This project also strengthens existing collaborations between the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and the Institute on Aging, as Drs. Freburger and Holmes hold appointments with the Sheps Center.

To learn more about this exciting new project visit its web page on our Stimulus Grants site.

If you are interested in applying to our Research Stimulus Grants in Aging Program, please see the program web site at the link above. Letters of Intent are due May 5, 2008 by 5 PM! Proposals are welcome from any and all departments and schools at UNC at Chapel Hill. Applicants should be a member of the regular faculty in any UNC department or school, of any rank, or a permanent EPA non-faculty employee working at the University in a research capacity. This year grants will be again be awarded to faculty who will use the funds to build interdisciplinary teams and develop research proposals in aging.