Design Age Institute: the UK’s first national design-for-ageing Institute
In a joint venture between the Royal College of Art, University of Oxford and University of Newcastle, the UK’s first national design-for-ageing Institute has been announced.
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Job opportunities : Neurodegenerative disease modelling using scCRISPR screening
Three exciting job opportunities for two postdocs and one advanced research assistant to work on screening for genes involved in neurodegenerative disease using iPSC-derived cell types (neurons, astrocytes and microglia). This will use cutting edge CRISPR screening with a single cell RNAseq readout coupled with phenotypic assays to identify and characterise known and putative Alzheimer’s […]
Will a rethink on offices benefit older workers?
As the great pandemic of 2020 infiltrates every corner of our lives, there is one place perhaps more than any other that has been affected. This is the office, the defining building type of the 20th century whose very existence is now called into question. Offices have been out of reach during the lockdown and must […]
Online seminar series “Living Longer Better”
Online seminar series run by Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez on “Living Longer Better” Our next speaker will be Professor Lynne Cox on the 23 June at 10am Title: How to age well: lessons from geroscience
The lunchtime seminar ‘The future of drug discovery for healthy ageing’
The future of drug discovery for healthy ageing 19 June 2020, 12:00 – 13:00
“The Elixir of Life has been developed in Oxford!”
Seminar by Dr Muir Gray hosted by Dr Roberto Salguero-Gómez on 1 June 2020.
Ageing Well | Lynne Cox
Professor Lynne Cox comments on the Queen’s diet, health and well-being in older age in The Irish Sun.
£1m donation to support Longevity Science
A new gift of £1 million will support and advance the study of Longevity Science at Oxford and establish the Mellon Longevity Science Programme at Oriel to help the most vulnerable in society by advancing research into health resilience in ageing populations.
Very old hailed as super-survivors | The Times
People who live beyond 100 are part of a special group whose biological make-up means that they are more likely to survive coronavirus. Sarah Harper comments that with people who live to a very old age and make it over 105 years there is some indication that they are genetically or biologically different. ► Read the full […]
Reaching older people in a crisis: learning from experience?
In a recent policy brief on Coronavirus and ageing, the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs declared that the virus mean that the world was grappling with “an unparalleled health crisis.” While on a global level this is undoubtedly true, the fact that in low-income countries large-scale health emergencies are endemic is easily obscured.