Dr. Joseph Scarpa was awarded an R03 grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) for his project titled “The Impact of Biological Age on Surgical Outcomes.”
The two-year, $420,000 grant will support Dr. Scarpa’s research that aims to determine the effects of preoperative biological age on mortality and loss of independence after surgery.
Dr. Scarpa is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and was a Van Poznak Research Scholar in the Department of Anesthesiology. His mentors on this project include Dr. Jan Krumsiek, an associate professor of systems and computational medicine, and Dr. M. Cary Reid, a professor of medicine, both at Weill Cornell Medicine.
In the future, Dr. Scarpa hopes this research will help guide decision-making between patients and surgeons by providing a way to distinguish biological risk for surgery in aging adults.