CMAR director awarded CBE
Professor Lord, who is a professor at the University of Birmingham, has received an award for her work helping older people. As people around the world are living longer, Professor…
CMAR Student shortlisted for the 2020 Max Perutz Writing Award
CMAR PhD student Jonathan Lewis has been shortlisted for the 2020 Max Perutz Science Writing Award, the MRC’s annual writing competition. Jonathan who is currently in his third year, wrote a piece titled ' To Infinity and Beyond: Finding Treatments for Space Travel Bone Loss '.
Prizes for young CMAR researchers at ECSS in Prague
Nima Gharahdaghi and Natalie Shur won prestigious Young Investigator Prizes for their oral presentations at the annual meeting of the European College of Sports Sciences (ECSS) in Prague last weekend.…
Poster prize for CMAR PhD student
CMAR-funded PhD student Dan McCormick received a poster prize at this week’s annual meeting of the Physiological Society
Centre Co-Director Awarded Honorary Doctorate in Medicine
Centre Co-Director Professor Paul Greenhaff will be awarded an honorary doctorate in Medicine by the University of Copenhagen next month at a ceremony attended by the Queen of Denmark.
2018 R Jean Banister Prize Lecture
We are delighted to announce that Centre Principal Investigator Dr Beth Phillips, Assistant Professor in Clinical, Metabolic & Molecular Physiology in the Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine has been chosen as the recipient of The Physiological Society’s inaugural 2018 R Jean Banister Prize Lecture.
Dr Daisy Wilson wins a scientific poster prize at the British Geriatrics Society
CMAR funded clinical PhD student, Dr Daisy Wilson, won the scientific prize at the British Geriatrics Society (BGS).
Nima Gharahdaghi, University of Nottingham, wins poster prize at the 10th Annual Congress of the Sarcopenia, Cachexia and Wasting Disorders Society
Nima Gharahdaghi an international PhD student funded by the Vice Chancellor’s scholarship, at the University of Nottingham won 1st poster prize at the 10th Annual Congress of the Sarcopenia, Cachexia and Wasting Disorders Society held in Rome held on 8-10 December 2017.
Centre Researcher Wins British Geriatrics Society Rising Star Award for Research
CMAR member Dr Thomas Andrew Jackson, Clinician Scientist and Visiting Consultant in Geriatric Medicine in the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, has been awarded the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) Rising Star Award for Research 2018. The competition was of a very high calibre however the votes for Dr Jackson were unanimous.
CMAR Early Career Researcher wins the Koranchevsky Prize at the BSRA Annual Meeting in Exeter
Dr Niharika Duggal, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, presented her work on the impact of lifelong physical activity on immunosenescence at the British Society for Research into Ageing (BRSA) Annual Meeting in Exeter on 22 July 2017.