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Protein folding illustration
A master of protein origami
Published Summer 2025 Video
Johns Hopkins chemist Stephen Fried has spent decades investigating how protein cells fold, unfold, and misfold, a cause of many neurodegenerative diseases and our cognitive decline. His pioneering work could provide the basis for humans living longer, better, and with our memories intact. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Anway Pimpalkar, left, and Junjun Chen
Research matters
Game-changing lab in a shoe
Published May 9, 2025
Designed by Johns Hopkins bioengineers, Re-Kinesis was named a finalist in the National Institute on Aging's 2025 Start-Up Challenge, which recognizes researchers' innovative, science-driven interventions for age-related diseases
Kathleen Cullen
Voices
Research cuts imperil critical insights into our 'silent sense'
Published April 29, 2025
Falls are the leading cause of injury-related death among seniors in the United States. Johns Hopkins researcher Kathleen Cullen studies the vestibular system in our inner ear, integral to maintaining balance.
Sarah Szanton
Research Matters
Nursing program helps seniors age at home
Published March 4, 2025 Video
The CAPABLE program, launched in 2012 by Sarah Szanton, demonstrates how a single NIH seed grant can blossom years later
Jennifer Schrack
Research Matters
Long-running surveys help track trends in aging
Published Feb 25, 2025 Video
The Center on Aging and Health, one of JHU's largest recipients of NIH funds, conducts critical work that provides real-time insights into the condition and care of older Americans
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Innovative care
Hopkins AITC announces additional awardees of second funding round
Published Jan 5, 2024
Grant recipients will receive funding to develop new artificial intelligence technologies to promote healthy aging
Image of an older man sitting in an armchair while reading on his iPad
The case for more screen time
Published Summer 2023
A pair of recent studies looks at how social isolation affects older adults / Johns Hopkins Magazine
an astronaut floats in space attached to a heart
Sending heart tissue to space
Published Summer 2023
Johns Hopkins scientists study aging and heart disease by sending heart "tissue-on-a-chip" to space / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Innovative care
Hopkins AITC announces awardees of second funding round
Published June 16, 2023
Grant recipients–hailing from academia, industry, and clinical practice—will receive funding to develop new devices and other aging-related innovations
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Why do we all age differently?
Published March 22, 2023
Johns Hopkins researchers are part of a new program to understand and predict the differences in how we all age