Experimental Medicine and Clinical Translation for Patient Benefit

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Experimental Medicine

Arthritis patient has scan This theme undertakes investigation in human beings to identify the cause of age-related diseases and aims to test the validity and importance of new discoveries or treatments.

Clinical Translation for Patient Benefit

This theme aims to increase the throughput of findings from basic or early phase clinical research in ageing and to use these findings to drive innovation in healthcare settings.

These themes work closely together and involve similar groups of academics. Much of our clinical research is undertaken within the context of the Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre.

The main areas of research are:

Principal Staff in each theme are:

Dementia And Neurodegenerative Disease
Professor David Burn IAH Director & Professor of Movement Disorder Neurology	Email: david.burn@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 248 1266
Professor Raj Kalaria Professor of Cerebrovascular Pathology (Neuropathology)	Email: raj.kalaria@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 248 1352
Professor Ian McKeith Professor of Old Age Psychiatry	Email: ian.mckeith@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 248 1313
Dr Urs Mosimann	Email: urs.mosimann@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 248 1313
Dr Elizabeta Mukaetova-Ladinska Clinical Senior Lecturer/Consultant	Email: elizabeta.mukaetova-ladinska@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)191 233 6161 ext 22439
Professor John O'Brien Professor of Old Age Psychiatry	Email: john.obrien@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 248 1310
Emeritus Professor Robert Perry Emeritus Professor	Email: robert.perry@ncl.ac.uk
Professor Elaine Perry Professor of Neurochemical Pathology	Email: elaine.perry@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 248 1349
Dr Margaret Piggott DeNDRoN Data Manager and Public-Patient Involvement Coordinator	Email: margaret.piggott@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 248 1350
Dr Tuomo Polvikoski Clinical Senior Lecturer/Consultant	Email: tuomo.polvikoski@ncl.ac.uk

Cardiovascular Ageing And Stroke
Professor Gary Ford Jacobson Chair of Clinical Pharmacology	Email: gary.ford@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7744
Professor Julia Newton Clin Prof of Ageing & Medicine	Email: julia.newton@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7194
Dr Steve Parry Clinical Senior Lecturer/Consultant	Email: steve.parry@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 282 5237

Mitochondrial Dysfunction
Professor Doug Turnbull Professor of Neurology	Email: doug.turnbull@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 8334

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Campus for Ageing and Vitality
Newcastle upon Tyne
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