British Society for Research on Ageing
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The BSRA supports research to understand the causes & effects of ageing.
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http://www.bsra.org.uk/ 16-03-2012 10:09:00
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Poster (from my final PhD study on #CardiacRehab using high protein diet and resistance exercise) at the UKAN (UK Ageing Network) event before the British Society for Research on Ageing conference. Thanks Kelsie Johnson for the photo.
Keynote lecture by Joao Possos of Mayo Clinic with some amazing data on mitochondrial DNA and cellular senescence. The lecture also included Leonard Hayflick, a BSRA Lord Cohen medal winner. Today someone else will be awarded the Lord Cohen medal... #BSRA2024
Cynthia Kenyon Calico UC San Francisco delivering the Lord Cohen Lecture British Society for Research on Ageing An inspiring tale of the groundbreaking discovery of gene circuits for ageing when many thought genes regulating ageing were impossible #BSRA2024
The BSRA is pleased to announce that the Lord Cohen of Birkenhead Medal is awarded to Cynthia Kenyon Altos Labs for both her ground-breaking work in genes regulating ageing and current efforts to apply this to helping humans live healthier lives. bsra.org.uk/cynthia-kenyon…
What a week attending ECI2024 in Dublin plus PhD viva of Maureen in Luke O'Neill lab. Then crushing British Society for Research on Ageing meeting in Brum Niharika Duggal and then British Atherosclerosis Society meeting organised by Guzik and Smart. Spent time and had conversations with some of my favourite people in science.
The British Geriatrics Society supported symposium! Young Geris (irony intended) with the PROMOTe trial, Andrew Clegg on measuring frailty, and Jane Masoli on measuring and researching multi-morbidity. Thanks Claire Steves for chairing. Great to have applications of research in the last session of #BSRA2024.
Congrats to Cynthia Kenyon, Calico's VP of Aging Research, for receiving the Lord Cohen Medal from British Society for Research on Ageing, one of the highest honors in the field of aging. The Medal has only been awarded 16 times in 40 yrs and recognizes outstanding contributions to aging research.
Really great to present early data from Move Well-Age Well (MWAW) at this year's British Society for Research on Ageing conference. Cardiff Metropolitan University Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences.
Finally awards to our amazing ECR members from #BSRA2024 Korenchevsky prize Hanane Hadj-Moussa, Babraham Institute Poster prize 3rd Jack Sullivan Uni of Birmingham 2nd Rhiannon Cummings Imperial College London 1st Pasquale Putter, LUMC Leiden