This Core – led by Elena Volpi, MD, PhD, FGSA and Randy Strong, PhD, and Rebeca Wong, PhD – provides scientific leadership, administrative infrastructure, financial, and regulatory oversight in support of the activities and growth of the San Antonio Pepper Center. It promotes institutional interactions and external relationships. The LAC supports the Executive Committee, the Internal Advisory Committee, the External Advisory Board, the Scientific Review Committee, and the Community Advisory Board.
LAC Specific Aims:
- Provide scientific leadership and direction, stimulating and sustaining new research and collaborations, and attracting new, diverse investigators to stimulate progress toward the San Antonio Pepper Center overall goals.
- Coordinate, integrate, and monitor core functions, leveraging resources, promoting access, scientific coherence, operational cohesiveness, and new utilization of core resources.
- Manage and evaluate the SA OAIC program in compliance with applicable regulations and policies.
- Increase the SA OAIC’s impact locally and nationally, disseminate advancements in translational geroscience to the scientific and lay community, and to policymakers to improve the health and functional independence of all older Americans.
The LAC co-sponsors a weekly seminar series with our on-campus partners, the Masoro-Barshop Annual Conference on Aging, visiting professor series, working groups, grant planning, and national conferences. Please see our Events page for our current calendar.