Newcastle NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Ageing
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University were awarded Specialist Biomedical Centre status in October 2007 to become a Specialist Biomedical Centre in Ageing Medicine. Research is focused on seven research programmes aimed at improving healthcare in an expanding ageing population.
The Newcastle NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Ageing capitalises on a strong track record for translational research in Newcastle upon Tyne and the rapidly expanding Institute for Ageing Health at the University, bringing together multidisciplinary teams to pursue basic and patient centred research in a wide range of diseases where age is a major risk factor. Each strand of the Biomedical Centre focuses on the effects of age and ageing on organ dysfunction with considerable cross fertilisation at the basic science and clinical levels between the seven themes involving researchers in the Institute for Ageing and Health, the Institute of Cellular Medicine and the Institute of Neuroscience.
Key developments supporting this programme include a Clinical Research Facility at the Royal Victoria Infirmary site, the Clinical Ageing Research Unit on the Campus for Ageing and Vitality at the Newcastle General Hospital, adjacent to Magnetic Resonance and Positron Emission Tomography imaging in the Newcastle Imaging Centre.
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Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, recently visited the Biomedical Research Centre. Find out more in the full press release.
"I was delighted to see news of your award from the NIHR at the Experimental Medicine Summer School earlier this year. This reflects enormous credit on both you and Newcastle - I understand that this was a highly competitive competition and you deserve a lot of credit"
Prof Chris Day
Director
Newcastle
Biomedicine
Image: Chris Elliott receives a prize from Dame Sally Davis at the NIHR Summer School in Ashridge
Research Themes
- Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Stroke and Cardiovascular Ageing
- Mitochondrial Abnormalities in Ageing and Age Related Diseases
- Ageing and Type 2 Diabetes
- Liver Disease in Ageing
- Musculoskeletal Disease in Ageing
- Vision and Ageing
All of the themes have in common the aim of translating advances in biomedical sciences to clinical research for the benefit of patients. More specifically, each theme has as one or more of its aims, the discovery and validation of biomarkers for early diagnosis, predicting disease progressing and monitoring response to treatment. All of the themes also include a development of novel treatment approaches and improving the risk benefit ratio of currently available therapeutic modalities through the development and use of tissue banks.
Contact Details
Professor PF Chinnery – Director
Professor Tom Kirkwood - Scientific Co-Director
Miriam Lowes – Administrator
Wendy Jones – Finance Assistant
For general enquiries please contact the administrator
