The Asian Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) administered by Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research announced a transition in leadership of the National Institute on Aging P30 Center Core Grant.

The Rutgers Asian RCMAR received $3.4 million in funding from the National Institute on Aging to address the gap in research on U.S. Asian older adults. Currently in the fifth year of the grant, the Rutgers Asian RCMAR has advanced the careers of scientists from underrepresented populations through translation trauma and resilience research among one of the most understudied, yet fastest growing populations in the U.S.: Asian American older adults. The focus on research, population and investigators aims to inform both practice and policy at community, regional and national levels.

Beginning in August 2022, the Rutgers Asian RCMAR will be led by Multiple Principal Investigators (MPI’s) including:

• William Hu, MD, PhD, FAAN is Interim Director of the Rutgers Center for Healthy Aging at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research and Founding Chief of Cognitive Neurology for Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Hu will serve as contact MPI for the Asian RCMAR and Director of the Leadership and Administrative Core.
• Stephen Crystal, MA, PhD is Director of the Rutgers Center for Health Services Research at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research and Distinguished Research Professor and Board of Governor Professor at Rutgers School of Social Work. Crystal will serve as an MPI and Director of the Measurement and Analysis Core.
• Cui Yang, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health. Yang will serve as an MPI and Director of the Community Liaison and Recruitment Core.
• Bei Wu, PhD is the Dean’s Professor in Global Health and Vice Dean for Research at the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and co-directs the NYU Aging Incubator. Wu currently serves as the Co-Director of the Research and Education Core and will now also serve as an MPI.

The new MPI’s will bring their expertise to the grant in areas such as cognitive aging, health outcomes, end-of-life care, risk behaviors among health disparity populations, and resilience-related factors pertaining to brain health and psychological well-being.

To learn more, visit: RCMAR.rutgers.edu