Muscles matter: raising awareness of sarcopenia
At the recent NIHR Newcastle BRC Celebration of Excellence: Community event delegates had the opportunity to have their grip strength measured as part of an interactive demonstration.
Let’s talk research… at a GP Practice
Members of the AGE Research Group and the Northumbria Primary Care Research Team hosted a successful first coffee morning together at Cramlington Medical Group on Wednesday 5 March.
Results from the MET-PREVENT sarcopenia trial
Clinical trial results published in the prestigious Lancet Healthy Longevity journal
Characterising multiple long-term conditions
Published in European Geriatric Medicine: ‘Approaches to characterising multimorbidity in older people accessing hospital care: a scoping review’.
International Professors Visit Newcastle
A day that explored research, innovative clinical practice and collaboration in ageing, sarcopenia and multimorbidity.
Developing Interdisciplinary Early Career Researchers
The AGE Research Group is proud to spotlight our latest cohort of outstanding PhD students, funded by the NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre's Ageing, Sarcopenia and Multimorbidity theme.
AGE Research Group secures funding for public engagement
Members of the AGE Research Group have been awarded funding to undertake public engagement work about delirium and multiple long-term conditions (MLTC) with older people.
Professor Dave Arnold visits the AGE Research Group
A visit from renowned neuromuscular physiology expert results in a collaborative publication on sarcopenia and periodic paralysis
Catherine Dotchin joins the AGE Research Group
We are delighted to announce that Dr Catherine Dotchin has joined the AGE Research Group as Clinical Senior Lecturer
MLTC Cross-NIHR Collaboration Launched
Professor Avan Sayer Co-Leads a Cross-NIHR Collaboration (CNC) Launched to Tackle Multiple Long-term Conditions (MLTC)
AGE Researchers Secure Prestigious Grants
Two clinical researchers from the AGE Research Group have been awarded highly sought-after Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers from the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Let’s Talk Research…on a hospital ward
Dr Lucy Rimmer helps develop the Let’s Talk Research poster, postcards and booklets
Nutrition in skeletal muscle ageing and sarcopenia.
Narrative review of current evidence on nutrition in the prevention and treatment of sarcopenia using a single nutrient, a whole food, and a whole diet approach.
Professor Avan Aihie Sayer delivers Harveian Oration
Professor Avan Aihie Sayer delivers prestigious Harveian Oration at Royal College of Physicians.
Can we rely on activity monitors to determine sedentary levels?
Susan Hillman, Research Assistant in Medical Statistics, shares her thoughts on activity monitors.
AGE members attend annual Physiotherapy conference
AGE group members present work from the BEPOP programme at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Annual Conference.
Professor Miles Witham delivers talk at the Drug Discovery 2024 conference
AGE Research Group member Professor Miles Witham delivered an invited talk at the Drug Discovery 2024 conference in October 2024.
Final findings published from the LiLL-OPM study
The final paper from the Lifestyle in Later Life – Older People’s Medicine (LiLL-OPM) Study has recently been published in BMC Geriatrics by members of the AGE Research Group.
Developing the researchers of the future
This year the AGE Research Group welcomed 3 summer placement students and 1 MRes student with an interest in ageing research.
