Ageing studies at UCL
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1958 Birth Cohort Study - Alissa Goodman (UCL Institute of Education)
1970 Birth Cohort Study - Professor Alice Sullivan (UCL Institute of Education)
British Regional Heart Study - Professor Goya Wannamethee (UCL Institute of Epidemiology
and Health Care ) and Professor Peter Whincup (St Georges)
Cellular ageing in fission yeast - Professor Jurg Bahler (UCL Research Department of
Genetics, Evolution and Environment / UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing)
Comorbidity in Relation to AIDS (COBRA) - Professor Caroline Sabin (UCL Research
Department of Infection and Population Health) and Dr Alan Winston (Imperial College
London)
Complex Built Environment Systems (CBES) Platform Grant - Professor Mike Davies (The
Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources)
Dementia Research Centre – Professor Nick Fox (UCL Institute of Neurology)
DEpletion of Serum Amyloid P Component In Alzheimer's Disease (DESPIAD) Phase II
clinical trial of CPHPC - Professor Sir Mark Pepys FRS (Wolfson Drug Discovery Unit)
FOXO and ETS factors in ageing in Drosophila - Dr Nazif Alic (UCL Institute of Healthy
Ageing)
In vitro models of Alzheimer's Disease (Stem Cells) – Dr Selina Wray (UCL Institute of
Neurology)
Inflammation in autoimmune disease – Professor David Abraham (Centre for Rheumatology
and Connective Tissue Diseases) and Professor Christopher Denton (UCL Centre for
Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases)
MRC Grand Challenge Grant: ‘Enhancing immunity and vaccination responses in older
humans by targeting the p38 MAP kinase signalling pathway and vitamin D supplementation’
- Professor Arne Akbar (UCL Division of Infection & Immunity) and Professor Derek Gilroy
(UCL Centre for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics)
MRC National Survey of Health & Development (1946) - Professor Diana Kuh (MRC Unit for
Lifelong Health & Ageing at UCL)
New Dynamics of Ageing: Music for Life Project - Professor Sue Hallam (UCL Institute of
Education)
Parkinson's disease - genetics and mechanism – Professor Nicholas Wood (UCL Institute of
Genetics)
POPPY (Pharmacokinetic and clinical observations in people over fifty) - Professor Caroline
Sabin (UCL Research Department of Infection and Population Health)
Role of PI3K in metabolic ageing - Dr Lazaros Foukas (UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing)
Seeing what they see: compensating for cortical visual dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease Dr Sebastian Crutch (UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering)
Southall And Brent Revisited Study (SABRE) - Professor Nish Chaturvedi (UCL Institute of
Cardiovascular Science)
Synaptic transmission in the brain - Dr Frances Edwards (Research Department of
Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (NPP))
Whitehall II Cohort (Stress and Health Study) - Professor Mika Kivimaki (UCL Institute of
Epidemiology and Health Care)
This is not an exhaustive list so please contact Helen Hopkins if you are involved with a UCL
ageing-related study that you think should be included.