Dear Colleagues and Friends,
The Huffington Center on Aging (HCOA) was established in 1988 through a generous gift from the late Roy M. and Phillis Gough Huffington. The HCOA is recognized for its innovative and dynamic research programs and is committed to translating basic research discoveries into applications that promote healthy aging and combat associated diseases and conditions. The Center faculty, along with their research staff and trainees, use diverse model systems and cutting-edge technologies to address questions that are crucially important to the biology, pathophysiology, and diseases of aging. The HCOA faculty have been highly successful in competing for NIH funding and are recipients of prestigious awards, including the CPRIT Scholars Award and the NIH Directors New Innovator and Pioneer Awards. The Center has trained countless graduate students and research and clinical fellows in aging, and our faculty members take leadership roles in various educational programs at the College.
Since I was appointed director of the HCOA in 2010, I have enjoyed the unwavering support from the Center’s faculty, staff, and trainees, for which I am eternally grateful. Our responsibility is more important than ever as we face an unprecedented explosion of the aging population along with age-associated conditions and diseases. Going forward, I am confident that we can work together to continue expanding the HCOA’s legacy and advance the Center’s multiple missions.
Hui Zheng, Ph.D.
Director, Huffington Center on Aging