The IOA Fellows Program brings together researchers, clinicians, and educators with varied interests and remarkable achievements in the field of aging.

About the IOA Fellows Program

There are two levels of fellowship:

• IOA Fellows are University of Pennsylvania faculty representing the 12 schools within the University;

• Associate Fellows represent PENN staff, adjunct faculty as well as colleagues from other US institutions who have demonstrated a keen interest in aging-related research, education or services.

The IOA Fellows Program offers the following opportunities and services:

• Communication updates about about IOA Visiting Scholars who are speaking at Penn, as well as events, conferences, and symposia in aging
• Priority in scheduling meetings with and attending lunches for IOA Visiting Scholars
• Funding opportunity alerts for those working in the field of aging - from both the national and state levels
• Collaboration Connection, a database to help foster collaboration on additional research in aging, listing all those here at Penn working in aging and their respective areas of expertise (to be completed by early November, 2005)
• Pilot Research Grants Program that provides initial funding, on a competitive basis, for studies in aging

The IOA Associate Fellows Program offers the following opportunities and services:

• Communication updates about about IOA Visiting Scholars who are speaking at Penn, as well as events, conferences, and symposia in aging
• Funding opportunity alerts for those working in the field of aging - from both the national and state levels
• Collaboration Connection, a database to help foster collaboration on additional research in aging, listing all those here at Penn working in aging and their respective areas of expertise
• Pilot Research Grants Program that provides initial funding, on a competitive basis, for studies in aging