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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3155
igaa057.3155
Abstracts
Session 7710 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Opportunities for More Aging and Disparities Research, Mentoring, and Data Sharing With REGARDS
Judd Suzanne 1 Howard Virginia 1 Cushman Mary 2 Manly Jennifer 3 Howard George 1 1 
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
2 
University of Vermont, Colchester, Vermont, United States
3 
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”856 857
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
One of the benefits of this large, national cohort study with black and white participants is the opportunity to involve a breadth of researchers in the science. REGARDS actively solicits and engages early career and minority investigators to lead or participate in manuscripts as well as ancillary studies. REGARDS has provided opportunities for >175 ancillary studies, including those that enrich existing outcomes, provide new outcomes, assess new exposures, link with other national data, support extended analyses, and assess genetic associations. Over 70% of the 500+ publications to date have a lead author who was not a funded REGARDS investigator. In this presentation, we will discuss some of the innovative ancillary studies and high-impact manuscripts that have grown out of REGARDS, the processes for developing an ancillary study/manuscript, and the procedures for obtaining REGARDS data. We will describe opportunities for mentored research for junior investigators, as well as independent research projects.