UMaine Center on Aging
Kristy Townsend is an Associate of the UMaine Center on Aging (mainecenteronaging.org). This Center is part of the strategic Aging Initiative on our campus (https://umaine.edu/research/news-from-the-vice-president/ and https://umaine.edu/areas/aging-research/).
The Townsend Lab is interested in aging-related aspects of peripheral neuropathy and changes in neural plasticity and metabolic status. Our AHA Collaborative award focuses on aging in adipose tissue, and resulting neurovascular and cardiometabolic changes.
Aging Resources in the State of Maine:
Our collaborators at Jackson Laboratory:
Nathan Shock Center for Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging:
https://www.jax.org/research-and-faculty/research-centers/aging-center
National Institute on Aging (NIA) at NIH has 3 Intervention Testing Program (ITP) centers, including David Harrison’s group at Jax:
https://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dab/interventions-testing-program-itp
UNE Center for Excellence in Aging and Health:
Northern Light (formerly EMMC) Maine Initiative for Neurologic Aging & Health (MAINAH)
https://northernlighthealth.org/MAINAH
New AgingME Collaboration between UMaine and UNE:
UNE, UMaine collaborate to develop statewide AgingME initiative
Summit in Maine focuses on our state as the oldest, most rural
Cutler Institute on Disability and Aging at USM:
https://usm.maine.edu/cutler/da
Maine’s state plan on Aging:
Click to access STATEPLANONAGING2016-2020DRAFT.pdf
Aging and Regenerative Biology at MDIBL:
iCARB: Immersion in Comparative Aging and Regenerative Biology 2019
The Townsend Laboratory 