The AMS research program 'Ageing & Vitality' (A&V) announces a call aimed at early career researchers / postdocs and PhD candidates.
The AMS research program 'Ageing & Vitality' is delighted to announce a call aimed at Early Career Researchers (ECRs) / postdocs and PhD candidates. The aim of the call is to enable this group of researchers to visit an (international) conference to present and discuss their work with colleagues in the field.
The Aging & Vitality program aims to understand the effects of physiological and pathological aging on mobility and to promote vitality and health maintenance in ageing and patient populations.
The Ageing & Vitality programme of AMS uses multidisciplinary and translational approaches. On the structural and functional level, we aim to unravel the mechanisms of ageing and pathology on mobility and physical functioning, to obtain insight into mechanistic, predictive and limiting factors for mobility and possibly into targets for intervention. At the behavioural level, we focus on risk factors and facilitators for activities of daily living and daily physical activity, to develop and evaluate prevention and intervention programmes. We combine subjective (perceived) and objective (clinical assessments and innovative technological instrumentation) measures of physical functioning, and discrepancies between these measures on group and individual level, towards personalized interventions to facilitate healthy life style and physical functioning/recovery pre, during and post hospitalisation in the ageing population.
With this call, we want to encourage young researchers affiliated with AMS to visit an (internatonal) conference on the topic, to present and discuss their work. The exact criteria can be found in the application form in the link below.
Note that the application deadline in this first round of the call is January 10, 2025 - 23:59 hrs (CET). The applications should be submitted using the link in the application form below.
The applications will be judged by the A&V Program Board and the results will be shared at the end of January 2025.