Ashleigh Evans, a PhD researcher in Dr Simon Jones’ group, has been awarded a Gold Sponsorship Award from Primerdesign to investigate the effect of adipokines on modulating the osteoarthritic cartilage and bone mRNAfingerprints.
Centre Director Professor Janet Lord has received the prestigious, unsolicited, Glenn Award from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research.
The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Birmingham visited the Centre to talk about the ‘Move-it-or-Lose-it‘ scheme with Professor Janet Lord and Move-it-or-Lose-it Director Julie Robinson.
As one of the commissioners for the ‘Healthy Ageing in the 21st century Commission Report’, Centre Director Professor Janet Lord helped to field questions from Members of Parliament at the report launch in the House of Commons.
The Geriatrics & Gerontology Section at the Royal Society of Medicine are organising a meeting on Thursday 20 March 2014: ‘Dignity and high-quality care for older people’ offering people the unique opportunity to hear Robert Francis QC, Serjeants’ Inn Chambers, to speak about the Francis Report and its effect on care.
The MRC-Arthritis UK Centre would like to invite applications for their Clinical PhD Studentship due to commence from October 2014
The Centre’s ‘Move it or Lose It’ Industrial Partners will be holding ‘train the trainer’ sessions over the next year to ensure further dissemination of their fantastic exercise programme for older adults.
The MRC-Arthritis UK Centre would like to invite applications for their 4 non-clinical PhD Studentships due to commence from October 2014.
CMAR PI Dr Rick Dunn, the systems biology theme lead, provided two Christmas science lectures to year 7 children on December 17th, 2013 to engage with the public about the importance of food and its impact on the human body in relation to health and ageing.
Older people who suffer a hip fracture should be routinely tested and treated for depression to aid their recovery and prevent their immune systems from being compromised, according to new research from the University of Birmingham.
Leading medical research charity Arthritis Research UK and the University of Birmingham have announced a major new research centre that aims to find out more about the causes of rheumatoid arthritis.