Grant Support
Through the efforts of James Vaupel, Duke’s PPPA (now PPARC) has received multiple grants from the NIA. One grant in particular played a significant role in the start-up of PPPA and that was (and is) Vaupel’s NIA Program Project Grant P01-AG008761, Oldest-Old Mortality – Demographic Models and Analysis. The grant started in February 1990 and because of sucessful renewals, it is now funded through 2009. When the P01 first received funding in 1990, Vaupel was a Professor at the University of Minnesota. Vaupel moved the grant to Duke University in the early 1990’s and in 1995 it became the first grant managed by PPPA (now PPARC).
PPARC currently provides the overall management of more than 10 multi-disciplinary aging research projects, which fund over 50 investigators working in the field of aging research both in the U.S. and abroad. Current research projects include demographic analysis of large mortality data sets, survey research of the elderly taking place in Denmark, Sardinia, China and Moscow, and projects in the area of evolutionary demography, which analyze vertebrate, invertebrate and plant models to investigate lifespan from an evolutionary perspective. For a full list of the grants that have been managed by PPPA/PPARC since 1995, see the PPARC Grants List.