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
1st January 2023
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CMAR presents research at the British Geriatrics Society 2022 Autumn meeting
Association of Academic Geriatric Medicine (AAGM) symposium organised a session on Sarcopenia and frailty: understanding mechanisms and developing interventions. The session was moderated by CMAR theme lead Professor Carolyn Greig and Centre Director Professor Janet Lord.
18th November 2022
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Guardian Science podcast with Janet Lord
There’s a podcast with Janet Lord that you might be interested in. They discussed how some billionaires are trying to extend their lives, and a company called Altos Labs is working on ways to make this happen
4th March 2022
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Agewell 2021
year Agewell did not go ahead as planned due to the covid-19 pandemic, however this year we decided we would run an online version on Thursday 9th of September
10th September 2021
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Government is missing its key healthy ageing targets and must act now, report finds
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted stark inequalities in healthy life expectancy, according to a report into ageing published on Friday 15 January
The report into healthy ageing has been published by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, following an in-depth inquiry for which CMAR’s director was Special Adviser
16th January 2021
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Did you watch “The Truth about Getting Fit at Home” on BBC1
If you managed to catch this episode of “The Truth about Getting Fit at Home” at 9pm on the 13th of January, you might have caught a glimpse of CMARs Beth Phillips.
15th January 2021
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CMAR PI Karim Raza awarded over £1.5 million for new MB-PhD programme
Funded by the Kennedy Trust, the MB-PhD programme will be hosted by the University of Birmingham’s College of Medical and Dental Sciences and support three intercalating students a year for five years in areas of research relevant to musculoskeletal and other inflammatory diseases.
14th December 2020
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‘The ageing immune system and COVID-19’ now published on the British Society for Immunology’s website
CMAR Director Professor Janet Lord contributed to the Taskforce’s latest report, ‘The ageing immune system and COVID-19’ which has now been published on the British Society for Immunology’s website. It is currently being sent to all parliamentarians in the House of Commons, House of Lords, the Senedd, the Scottish Parliament, and the Stormont, as well as a multitude of other stakeholders.
11th November 2020
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Professor Paul Greenhaff contributes to National Covid-19 Resilience Programme
CMAR Deputy Director Professor Paul Greenhaff contributed to ‘A National Covid-19 Resilience Programme: Improving the health and wellbeing of older people during the pandemic’ launched today.
The Physiological Society and the Centre for Ageing Better brought together physiologists, nutritionists, geriatricians, physiotherapists and clinicians to discuss three critical areas where the impact of the pandemic and lockdown on older people required greater consideration.
9th November 2020
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Consensus statement on the prevention of opioid-related harm in adult surgical patients
CMAR principal investigator Dileep Lobo, a Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery has published an important paper on the prevention of postoperative opioid harm.
19th October 2020
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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 ‘.
1st October 2020
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Professor Chris Buckley has been awarded the 2020 Carol Nachman prize in Rheumatology
We are delighted to be able to announce that Professor Chris Buckley has been awarded the 2020 Carol Nachman prize in Rheumatology jointly with his colleague Dirk Elewaut in Belgium.
18th May 2020
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