Dartmouth Health Receives $11.8 Million Grant to Establish Center for Aging and Serious Illness
New England Council member Dartmouth Health has received an $11.8 million federal grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to establish a new research program focused on older adults living with serious illness.
The grant supports the creation of the Center for Aging with Serious Illness (CASI), a multidisciplinary research facility at Dartmouth Health, with an additional $2.7 million award inviting participation by Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. CASI will bring together experts conducting clinical, behavioral, and health services research, and will support clinician-scientists developing independent research programs. The funding was awarded through NIGMS’s Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence program, which strengthens research capacity in states that have historically received lower levels of NIH funding.
“Given our location between two of the oldest population states per capita—New Hampshire and Vermont—Dartmouth Health is uniquely qualified to be the home of CASI,” said Nathan E. Goldstein, chair of Dartmouth Health’s Department of Medicine and co-principal investigator of CASI. “Our academic medical system is also one of the nation’s most rural. We know that rural Americans face numerous barriers to accessing healthcare, and these hurdles are especially challenging for older adults living with chronic illness.”
The New England Council congratulates Dartmouth Health on receiving this grant to advance research addressing the needs of aging and rural populations.