NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre in Ageing & Chronic Disease

About Us

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University were awarded Biomedical Centre status in October 2007 and the award was subsequently renewed and expanded in 2012 with the formation of the Newcastle NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Ageing & Chronic Disease. Research is focused on eight research programmes aimed at improving healthcare in an expanding ageing population. 

The NIHR Newcastle 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 eight themes involving researchers in the Institute for Ageing and Health, the Institute of Cellular Medicine, the Institute of Health & Society and the Institute of Genetic Medicine.

The BRC will form an integrated research matrix with the older person at its core. Our research strategy will be guided by older people through an active programme of engagement. We will develop new tests (biomarkers) allowing the early diagnosis of age-related diseases and monitoring the effects of new treatments; and we will determine the effects of exercise and novel drug treatments in each disease area. This will enable us to achieve our over-arching aim of developing 'personalised medicine for the older patient', where the needs and aspirations of the individual drive the provision of health care aimed at improving the quality of our later years.

  • Director – Professor Patrick Chinnery
  • Manager – Dr Mark Jarvis
  • Administrator – Mrs Miriam Lowes
  • Data Management Officer - Mrs Piera Rumney

Further information

Former Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, recently visited the Biomedical Research Centre. Find out more in the full press release.

Share our vision of research into, and treatment of, our ageing population at the Newcastle NIHR Biomedical Research Centre.

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