GRG MISSION STATEMENT:

The Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group is an educational, not-for-profit organization,
sponsored in part by the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research of Santa Clarita, CA,
The Lifeline Medical Clinics of Los Angeles, CA, and the Paul Glenn Foundation for Medical
Research of Santa Barbara, CA.  Please click on
Charter for more details.  As of February 2006, we have approximately 160 members, more
than half with advanced degrees.  We also have organized an international GRG Discussion
Group through UCLA that transmits a dozen messages a day to an audience of ~200
participants. 

Our goal is to educate our members on the latest progress on theories of aging and their
long-term implications for clinical practice.  Our members include physicians, scientists, and
engineers, as well as interested lay persons.  We hold monthly meetings, usually the second
Monday evening of the month, in different parts of Los Angeles, including UCLA, the VA
Medical Center, USC, and CalTech, to which we invite leading researchers in gerontology and
related fields as guest lecturers to present their latest research results.  Over the course of a year,
we strive to maintain an equal mix of basic sciences and clinical research.  After the formal talk,
we normally review recent scientific and medical advances that have taken place over the
preceding month. 

In addition, we conduct "Journal Clubs" in which we review recent books and popular
magazine articles, prepare position papers on various subjects as requested (e.g., The
Bridge Plan for Nutritional and Life-Style Recommendations), maintain current
bibliographies of relevant scientific literature and computerized search methodologies such as
"Grateful Med" from the National Library of Medicine, develop standard glossaries, prepare
curricula for training professionals in the field (e.g., we have developed an intensive one-week
course for practicing physicians on Anti-Aging Medicine), compose business plans, write
strategic position papers, compose joint letters to government agencies (NIH, FDA, etc.) -- 
although we are not very active in a political sense -- organize conferences, and present scientific
papers (e.g., "The Primedia Conferences on Integrative Medicine and Age
Management"), and occasionally go on "field trips," as a group, to visit particular
laboratories of special interest, e.g., the Hansma DNA Lab at the University of California in
Santa Barbara. 

This website is updated on a monthly basis with the latest Topic and Speaker, Abstract, and
References, Location and Directions, as well as Date and Time for our next meeting (See Meetings ). 

Since we normally video tape these presentations, VHS copies of these tapes could available
for purchase by those who may be interested.  See
Previous GRG
Guest Speakers for further details. 

Click for an audio narration of the text
shown above. [ It looks like these audio files got lost in moving between servers, so we will have
to look for them when we have more time.]