Doctoral Programme Cohorts for Healthy Ageing (CoAGE)

This programme focuses on investigating the causes of age-related diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer, and why they often occur together (multimorbidity). Current research hypothesises that there may be very similar or even common causes for various age-related diseases. 

CoAGE brings together experts who are studying healthy ageing and age-related diseases to address current issues in an interdisciplinary manner. Each of these experts leads one of the major German ageing studies and will supervise a CoAGE PhD student. The programme includes many ageing studies in Germany that can provide valuable insights into the causes of disease and healthy ageing. 

The advantage of the planned networking of these studies is that findings from one ageing study can be validated with data from a second study. This makes the results more reliable and easier to generalise. In addition, the larger number of patients from combining several studies also makes it possible to analyse very rare phenomena, which are often overlooked because only very few people are affected in each study. CoAGE thus enables young and experienced scientists to look at ageing research in Germany from a new perspective and gain a clearer picture of the diseases of ageing and their common causes. 

CoAGE is funded by the Ministry of Science and Health of Rhineland-Palatinate (MWG) from January 2024 to June 2027 with €1.28 million.

Information on the advertised projects can be found here.