2026 Pilot Grant Awards Announced
The Center on Aging had another great turnout of Pilot applications this year. We started with 39 LOIs and in the end 29 pilot applications along with 2 innovation applications submitted. We truly appreciate the evaluations that were done by our Steering Committee Members and the Internal Reviewers. The final scores were very close, but we are pleased to share that four pilot applications were awarded, along with one Innovation award. With such high quality from all submitted applications we wish we could fund more.
PILOT AWARDEES
Joshua Choi, MD, MS (Biomedical Informatics)
Matthew Euler, PhD (Psychology)
Vicky Tiase, PhD, RN (Nursing)
Katie Ullman, PhD (HCI)
INNOVATION AWARDEE
Jorie Butler, PhD (Geriatrics)
Meet the Director
Alayne Markland, D.O.
Alayne Markland, D.O. joined the University of Utah Center on Aging in December 2024
when she also became Chief of the Division of Geriatrics in the School of Medicine.
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The Center on Aging has a 40 year history at the University of Utah. Beginning with its origination in 1972, the Center on Aging has provided educational and research programs in gerontology at the University of Utah. It has sponsored undergraduate and graduate gerontology certificate programs as well as a Masters degree program in Gerontology. In addition to its strengths in gerontology education programs, it is recognized for a well-established research program focused on bereavement, coping with loss of a spouse and caregiving. In June 2004 its name was changed from the Gerontology Center to reflect a desire to become more comprehensive and expand the scope of its service and research activities.