In a highly competitive RFA, six new pilot grants were awarded by the Cornell Center for Aging Research and Clinical Care to Weill Cornell faculty to pursue aging research. Awards were made this year to a variety of different departments and divisions. This year's awardees are:

• Julie L. Boyer, Ph.D.
  Genetic Medicine
  Anti-Sars Immunity Elicited in the Aged by Adenovirus-based Vaccines
• Claire Henchcliffe, M.D., DPHil
  Neurology & Neuroscience
  An Energy-Yoga Intervention for Relief of Fatigue in Parkinson's Disease
• Francis Lee, M.D., Ph.D
  Psychiatry
  Age-Dependent Consequences of a Human BDNF variant (Val66Met) in a Transgenic Mouse Model
• Barrie Raik, M.D.
  Geriatrics & Gerontology
  Preferences For Screening, is to Identify The Predictors of Demented Patients
• M. Carrington Reid, Ph.D., M.D.
  Geriatrics & Gerontology
  The Clinical Epidemiology of Geriatric Telephone Medicine
• Bindu R. Shanmugham M.D., M.P.H.
  Psychiatry
  Cognitive and Affective Anterior Cingulate Subdivisions and Treatment Response of Geriatric Depression
• Thomas Sheeran, Ph.D., M.E.
  Geriatric Psychiatry
  Decision Support Software for Treatment of Geriatric Depression in Home Health Care

Pilot grants are used to support new and junior investigators in aging or to assist senior investigators in transitioning their work from another field to aging. The Aging Center would like to thank the Internal Advisory Committee who served as internal reviewers, as well as the Executive Committee. Be on the lookout for next year's RFA!