The Future of Aging
Learn about the leading edge research being supported by Beeson Program funding. Beeson Physician Scholars are working to understand the way that age and aging are implicated in a wide range of conditions.
Click on the following links to find out more about what Beeson Scholars are researching in the following areas:
- Acute care
- Age-related macular degeneration
- Alcohol abuse
- ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)
- Alzheimer's disease
- Androgen receptor gene
- Anxiety
- Atrial fibrillation
- Behavior intervention
- Biomarkers
- Brain
- CAG/glutamine tract
- Cancer
- Cardiac
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Cellular senescence
- Centenarians
- Central nervous system
- Cerebral white matter
- Chronic conditions
- Chronic pain
- Cognition
- Cognitive controls
- Cognitive impairment
- Community living
- Cultural issues
- Degenerative diseases
- Dementia and delirium
- Depression
- Diabetes
- Diagnostic technology
- Disability
- Diseases
- Driving
- Elder abuse/neglect
- Emotions
- Emphysema
- End-of-life
- Endocrinology
- Ethics
- Falls and falls prevention
- Frailty
- Functional dependence
- Functional outcomes
- Gait
- Gene expression
- Genetics
- Head Injury
- Health insurance
- Healthcare systems
- Hormone therapy
- Hospice
- Huntington's disease
- Influenza
- Insulin resistance
- Kennedy's disease
- Kidney disease
- Late-onset diseases
- Later life
- Low-income elderly
- Medical decision-making
- Medication
- Memory
- Mitochondria
- Mobility
- Motor function
- Movement disorders
- Muscular dystrophies
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Neuroimaging
- Neurological disease
- Neuronal dysfunction
- Nursing home
- Obesity
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Oncology
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Oxidative stress
- Parkinson's
- Patient-provider relationship
- PGC-1
- Prescription medicines
- Prevention
- Proteins
- Quality of care
- Race
- Retinal degeneration
- Rheumatological conditions
- Screening
- Skin conditions
- Stroke
- Surgery
- Telomeres
- Therapeutic efficacy
- Training
- Treatment
- Vascular disease
- Vitamin D
- Werner syndrome
- Wound repair