U24AG073094

AHA Collabor: NIA Collaboratories for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Healthy Aging - Project Summary/Abstract

Rose Li & Associates, Inc. (RLA) proposes to establish the "NIA Collaboratories for Artificial Intelligence and Healthy Aging" or AHA Collabor - a coordinating center to undertake a complementary set of activities to multiply the collective impact of the Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories for Aging Research (AITCS) to improve care and health outcomes for older Americans, including persons with dementia (PWD) and their caregivers.

Building on RLA's reputation for exceptional research/event management, program coordination, and communications support services, AHA Collabor promises to establish the United States as a national connector in aging innovation, promote greater diversity and inclusion in AI research, and counter bias in personal data and machine learning algorithms wherever possible. In the process, it aims to improve the lives of millions of older Americans.

The research managers and business development professionals on the AHA Collabor team will work to magnify the productivity and impact of the NIA AITCS. AHA Collabor will leverage additional resources to facilitate discourse among researchers, policymakers, developers, and practitioners. It will provide overarching support and advice related to all aspects of technology and business development, including ethics, navigating the regulatory and payer landscape, scaling, dissemination, and commercialization.

Specific aims of AHA Collabor are to:

1. Become a national hub and catalyst for AI and aging research and development by bringing together the worlds of academia, health, venture, industry, and government to ensure the successful translation of research to application.

2. Create a culture of coordination, communication, and collaboration with the AITCS, NIA, relevant NIA research centers, and the broader scientific community.

3. Implement a robust national infrastructure to accomplish and evaluate the diverse and multifaceted responsibilities of AHA Collabor. This national infrastructure will include capabilities for attracting pilot project applications and managing the competition process for pilot projects, incubating ideas and projects through the AHA-Combinator, launching a user-friendly and engaging website to serve as a national resource for AI and healthy aging, hosting a networking, sharing, and learning platform for AI and healthy aging innovators to collaborate freely, creating a marketing engine to promote pilot project competitions, workshops, and industry achievements, producing both physical and virtual meetings and events, and establishing an evaluation plan for AHA Collabor with baseline and progress metrics.

Establishing AHA Collabor as a dynamic hub with an entrepreneurial startup mentality outside of academic silos will generate excitement and impetus for fruitful collaborations and demonstrations of heightened impact. It will fully potentiate the success of the AITCS.

Rose Li And Associates

TO ENCOURAGE BIOMEDICAL, SOCIAL, AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH AND RESEARCH TRAINING DIRECTED TOWARD GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE AGING PROCESS AND THE DISEASES, SPECIAL PROBLEMS, AND NEEDS OF PEOPLE AS THEY AGE. THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING HAS ESTABLISHED PROGRAMS TO PURSUE THESE GOALS. THE DIVISION OF AGING BIOLOGY EMPHASIZES UNDERSTANDING THE BASIC BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES OF AGING. THE DIVISION OF GERIATRICS AND CLINICAL GERONTOLOGY SUPPORTS RESEARCH TO IMPROVE THE ABILITIES OF HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS TO RESPOND TO THE DISEASES AND OTHER CLINICAL PROBLEMS OF OLDER PEOPLE. THE DIVISION OF BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL RESEARCH SUPPORTS RESEARCH THAT WILL LEAD TO GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOCIAL, CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS THAT AFFECT BOTH THE PROCESS OF GROWING OLD AND THE PLACE OF OLDER PEOPLE IN SOCIETY. THE DIVISION OF NEUROSCIENCE FOSTERS RESEARCH CONCERNED WITH THE AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AS WELL AS THE RELATED SENSORY, PERCEPTUAL, AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH AGING AND HAS A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PROGRAM: TO EXPAND AND IMPROVE THE SBIR PROGRAM, TO INCREASE PRIVATE SECTOR COMMERCIALIZATION OF INNOVATIONS DERIVED FROM FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, TO INCREASE SMALL BUSINESS PARTICIPATION IN FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND TO FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION. SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (STTR) PROGRAM: TO STIMULATE AND FOSTER SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION THROUGH COOPERATIVE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CARRIED OUT BETWEEN SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, TO FOSTER TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER BETWEEN SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, TO INCREASE PRIVATE SECTOR COMMERCIALIZATION OF INNOVATIONS DERIVED FROM FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND TO FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION.

93.866 - Aging Research

National Institute on Aging (NIA) [HHS - NIH]

Bethesda, Maryland 208172417 United States

Single Zip Code

Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories for Aging Research Coordinating Center (AITCC) (R24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-AG-21-018)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 482% from $868,336 to $5,055,437.