CHAI Pilot Awards to Advance Measurement of Healthy Aging
Columbia University's CHAI Pilot Awards fund innovative research to develop or validate new tools for measuring healthy aging across diverse scientific fields.
Funder: Columbia University
Due Dates (Anticipated): July 2027 (Full application proposal deadline, projected)
Funding Amounts: $33,000 per award; typically 3 awards per cycle; one-year project period.
Summary: Supports Columbia University faculty in developing or validating innovative tools and methods to advance the measurement of healthy aging.
Key Information: Only assistant, associate, or full professors at Columbia University schools are eligible.
Description
The CHAI Pilot Awards to Advance Measurement of Healthy Aging are internal pilot grants administered by the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center as part of the Columbia Healthy Aging Initiative (CHAI) at Columbia University. These awards are designed to stimulate innovation in measurement science for healthy aging, supporting the next generation of cohort studies. The program encourages proposals from all scientific disciplines within the Columbia University community, targeting the development or validation of novel approaches to measuring healthy aging. Eligible projects may involve new population-level measures, survey scales, psychometric assessments, physical and cognitive performance tests, biochemical assays, composite indices, or innovative data/biospecimen collection methods. The ultimate goal is to enhance scientific understanding of the etiology and trajectory of healthy aging through improved measurement tools and methodologies.
