NIA Renews Funding for AGS-Initiated Bedside to Bench Conferences

We and our patients benefit greatly when basic research leads to new approaches to preventing, diagnosing, and treating common health problems. The flow of information from “bench to bedside” is critical to advancing patient care. By the same token, the flow of clinical observations and information from bedside—the clinical setting—to bench is also invaluable. Clinical observations inform basic research.

That’s why it’s good news that the National Institute on Aging (NIA) recently renewed funding for the American Geriatrics Society’s (AGS) “Bedside to Bench” researc...