Alongside colleagues at the University of Minnesota, Duke Professor of Medicine Virginia Kraus, M.D., Ph.D. led the study of more than one thousand North Carolinians that detected nine bloodstream molecules that may be able to predict whether an adult over the age of 71 will be alive in two years. The findings were published in the journal Aging Cell on February 24, 2026 and have received much media attention in recent weeks, including a story on NPR radio and articles by Bio-IT World, the Duke Chronicle, and Medscape. The full article can be read here.
REC scholar Charity Oyedeji with Pepper Center colleagues Heather Whitson, Harvey Cohen, and Katherine Hall have published their findings on Frailty Phenotype in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease in The Journals of Gerontology. The full article can be read here.
Pilot Project Awardee Todd Cade has published the protocol for his pilot trial in Experimental Gerontology. The full article can be read here.
Pepper Center faculty and scholars at recent NIA/AGS R13 Resilience Conference
