A lifetime of regular exercise slows down ageing
CMAR Researchers at the University of Birmingham and researchers at King’s College London have found that staying active keeps the body young and healthy.
Did you see one of CMAR’s researchers on BBC One with Michael Mosley last week?
Dr Beth Phillips appeared on the new program called ‘The Truth About Getting Fit’. Beth who has previously featured in Michael Mosley’s ‘Trust Me, I’m a Doctor’ series, stepped up to put Michael through his paces with a set of high-intensity exercises she has devised based on squats, star jumps and running on the spot to get the maximum benefit in a short amount of time.
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.
Agewell 2017
This year we broke from tradition and went off-campus to Carrs Lane Conference Centre in Birmingham City Centre for our annual Agewell event.
Centre early career researchers excel at this year’s European College of Sports Science annual meeting in Essen, Germany
The European College of Sport Science Annual congresses have been organized since the inauguration of the ECSS in 1995. Today the ECSS congresses rank among the leading sport scientific congresses worldwide. The Congress comprises a range of invited lecturers, multi- and mono-disciplinary symposia as well as tutorial lecturers and Socratic debates. The ECSS congress is attended by international sport scientists with an academic career. The ECSS congresses now welcome up to 3000 participants from all over the world.
New MOOC – Metabolomics: Understanding Metabolism in the 21st Century
CMAR member and Co-Director of the Birmingham Metabolomics Training Centre, Dr Warwick Dunn designed, developed and run a massive open online course (MOOCs for short) titled “Metabolomics: Understanding Metabolism in the 21st Century”. Over 4 weeks, the free online course aimed to show how metabolomics is revolutionising our understanding of metabolism.
Article featured in MRC Life Publication
Professor Janet Lord, Director of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research appeared on the BBC’s How to Stay Young programme on Thursday 7th April at 9 pm, offering her expertise on the ‘Sit to Rise’ test, an easy-to-administer test, measuring flexibility and strength in older people
“Trust Me, I’m a Doctor”, has enlisted the help of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research members
BBC TV’s flagship health programme, “Trust Me, I’m a Doctor”, has enlisted the help of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research (CMAR) members at the University of Nottingham to find out if the age-related loss of muscle mass and function can be minimised by a simple but regular home-based exercise programme.
Filming with Angela Rippon and the BBC in Cannon Hill Park
In the MRC-ARUK Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research (CMAR) we all know the benefits of keeping active as we age, and on Sunday 27th of September 2015, we had the opportunity to play a major role in the filming of a new series of programs about healthy ageing which will go out across the airwaves in the UK in the near future.