Research Themes
The Ageing Cell
The research of molecular and cellular biologists, geneticists, neurobiologists free radical chemists and nutritionists.
The research focuses on basic mechanisms of why our cells age.
- What happens to cells as they grow older?
- How do their properties change as they age?
- Can we halt or reverse age- related changes in cells
- How might this effect the ageing of human beings rather than their component cells?
The Ageing Body
The research of many specialist clinical and basic scientists including cardiologists, diabetologists, nutritionists, neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists and epidemiologists.
The research aids the understanding of the causes of diseases and disorders associated with ageing.
- What are the determinants of such disorders?
- What are the determinants of good health into the aged years?
- Can we develop advice to allow people not only to live longer but to live longer healthily?
- Can we identify nutrients and diets that may help in disease prevention?
The Ageing Society
The research of ethicists, social and political scientists, engineers, architects, designers, computer scientists and economists.
The research helps us to define how we should organise the physical, material, financial and spiritual aspects of our country to cope with an increasing proportion of aged people.
- How should medical treatment be paid for?
- Who will care for the aged if they become infirm?
- What is the aged person’s financial expectation and what is reality?
- How can we design our buildings and our transport systems to support their use by aged people?
Computation and devices – enabling technology
This technology includes computer science, micro-electronics and sensor development, bioinformatics and computational biology.
The research focuses on the use of computing to analyse the problems of ageing from multiple perspectives.