Professor Jim Edwardson
Professor of Neuroendocrinology
- Email: jim.edwardson@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 248 1300
- Fax: +44 (0) 191 248 1301
- Personal Website: http://www.yearsahead.org.uk
- Address: Institute for Ageing and Health
Wolfson Research Centre
Campus for Ageing and Vitality
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 5PL
Introduction
Professor Edwardson was founding Director of the Institute for Ageing and Health (1995-2006) and also Director of the MRC Neurochemical Pathology Unit.
Since retirement, he continues to work part-time for the IAH in the field of public engagement. He was founding Chair of the North East Regional Forum on Ageing (2005-09), which addresses the challenge of how we can be a flourishing, sustainable region with a population age-structure much older than that experienced by previous generations.
Professor Edwardson is an Honorary Vice President of the Alzheimer's Society with long-standing research interests in this and related disorders.
- Gibson AM, Edwardson JA, Turnbull DM, McKeith IG, Morris CM, Chinnery PF. No evidence of an association between the T16189C mtDNA variant and late onset dementia. Journal of Medical Genetics 2004, 41(1), e7.
- Edwardson JA, Kirkwood TBL. The Institute for Ageing and Health, University of Newcastle, UK. Experimental Gerontology 2002, 37(6), 749-756.
