{
  "signal_id": "SIG-2026-011",
  "observed_date": "2026-12-02",
  "category": "Geroscience + Research Agenda",
  "title": "NIA's Fifth Geroscience Summit will revisit the geroscience hypothesis with a focus on health",
  "what_changed": "NIA plans the Fifth Geroscience Summit for December 2-3, 2026 to assess progress, knowledge gaps, and future directions in geroscience with a focus on health.",
  "why_it_matters": "The summit is a future agenda-setting event where definitions, evidence gaps, biomarkers, translation, and health-focused geroscience priorities may be clarified.",
  "affected_actors": [
    "NIA",
    "NIH",
    "academic researchers",
    "industry",
    "clinicians"
  ],
  "decision_implication": "Create a pre-summit issue map and post-summit change analysis for P4L Brief and Evidence Explorer.",
  "status": "Future event",
  "evidence_class": "E5 — official NIA source",
  "impact": 4,
  "immediacy": 2,
  "relevance": 5,
  "novelty": 4,
  "adoption_leverage": 4,
  "priority_score": 77,
  "sources": [
    "https://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dab/workshops/fifth-geroscience-summit-revisiting-geroscience-hypothesis-focus-health"
  ],
  "public_slug": "/signal/2026-12-02-nia-geroscience-summit/",
  "watch_conditions": [
    "Agenda",
    "speakers",
    "consensus gaps",
    "endpoint/translation discussions",
    "follow-up publications."
  ],
  "last_verified": "2026-08-08",
  "version": "1.0"
}