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The NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) works to transform lives through world-leading research in ageing and multiple long-term conditions (MLTC).
We are delighted to welcome Andrew Blamire as Co-Director to the NIHR Newcastle BRC.
Professor Blamire was appointed following a competitive process and his knowledge, skills and experience will help to strengthen the BRC, our wider partnership and NIHR.
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Members of our Informatics and Precision Care for an Ageing Population and Skin Disease, Oral Disease and Immunogenomics Themes were part of the IBD-RESPONSE team running the Great North Run to raise vital funds for Crohn's & Colitis UK.
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Navy blue background with a vertical red stripe and the words 'PHIRST Webinar Healthy Place Making: Improving Public Health through Planning. 20 October 2025, 12-1.30PM, Online, MS Teams'. There is an image of a communal green space with plants and benches next to a block of apartments and a shared play space next to some housing.
Join the next PHIRST Webinar, Healthy Place Making: Improving Public Health through Planning
⏰Monday 20 October, 12-1.30PM on MS Teams.
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How local governments in England have been working to design and deliver healthier places
Over June and July, researcher Jack Lumsdon and Claire Wilkinson from the NIHR Newcastle BRC Digital Health, Ageing Innovation, and Inclusion Research Theme engaged with people and patients at two public engagement events.
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This week we were part of the Community Open Day at @newcastleuni.bsky.social
We had a fantastic day demonstrating how we use brain tissue, discussing our work in #dementia and #Parkinson's research with the local community in the West End of #Newacastle
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🧠 “The JPR registry will revolutionise how people like me find out about research.” – Phil, who has Parkinson’s & helped design JPR.
Help us connect more people to studies!
📰 Read more: tinyurl.com/JPRRegistry
🔗 Sign up: redcap.link/jpr1
📽️ Watch here: youtu.be/g900EDLZo5k
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A national research registry has been launched for people with Parkinson’s disease.
“The JPR registry will revolutionise how people like me find out about research.” – Phil, who has Parkinson’s & helped design JPR.
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Sign up 🔗 redcap.link/jpr1
BRC Theme Co-Lead Prof Quentin Anstee is appointed new Pro Vice-Chancellor of @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social.
“I look forward to working with colleagues across the university, our students & partners in the NHS & across the region to build on this legacy.”
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New paper: "From bench to bedside and beyond: new horizons for translational ageing research" by BRC Director Prof Avan Aihie Sayer highlights pioneering work in the biology of ageing, clinical trials, and life-course epidemiology.
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NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow Dr Chung Mun Alice Lin recently received a BRC Bursary to attend the European Workshop for Rheumatology Research (EWRR) in Budapest.
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Lately we have been actively growing and expanding the involvement of the public in all that we do.
This includes being part of different activites held in honour of national awareness days.
Find out more: buff.ly/AJZvbqd
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A study led by member of the Skin Disease, Oral Disease and Immunogenomics Theme Dr Shoba Amarnath has revealed why some patients don’t respond to immune checkpoint blockade therapy for solid cancer tumours and identifies a new combination treatment.
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💪 Muscles matter! We've been raising awareness of #sarcopenia at the recent @nihrnewcastlebrc.bsky.social Celebration of Excellence: Community event, by giving delegates the opportunity to have their grip strength measured and see how it compared to published norms.
#publicengagement #PPIE
Members of the Dementia, Mental Health and Neurodegeneration Theme are celebrating the publication of the results from a study looking at the underlying changes in brain function associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms in Lewy body dementia.
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We really enjoyed exhibiting at the Celebration of Research Excellence: Community event hosted by @nihrnewcastlebrc.bsky.social
Find out more about the event and attendee's feedback in the video below ⬇️
Two PhD students from the NIHR Newcastle BRC Skin Disease, Oral Disease, and Immunogenomics Theme have shared their experiences of engaging with patients and the public.
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The NIHR Newcastle Clinical Research Facility (CRF) invites the public to the Royal Victoria Infirmary for 'A Day in the Life of a Research Participant'.
Registration is essential. Email Suzanne Alderson via suzanne.alderson1@nhs.net to register.
🗓️ 23 May 2025, 10:30am-4:30pm
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NIHR Newcastle BRC Theme Co-Lead for Neuromuscular Disease, Rare Diseases and Mitochondrial Dysfunction Professor Volker Straub will give the INSIGHTS Public Lecture: The Newcastle way: Leading advancements in neuromuscular research on 15 May, 17:30 - 18:30.
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Opportunity for a #PDRA in exercise science, population health sciences or a related discipline to contribute to research on strength-based training interventions for people with multiple long-term conditions #MLTC
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Check out the first vlog in a series of three. Learn about Clinical Research. Click the link below
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Nick Reynolds on stage presenting findings from the AI MULTIPLY project.
Co-l Prof Nick Reynolds @nihrnewcastlebrc.bsky.social presented findings from @qmul.ac.uk collaborators on analysing #readmission using #burstydynamics: it's not just about events, it's about patterns too! #clinicians do this subliminally - can we define it informatically& #informpractice? #MLTC #AI
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New guidelines for monitoring patients with #IBD to prevent #BowelCancer developed by academics @ndm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk, @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social @nihrnewcastlebrc.bsky.social, @uclan.ac.uk and others have been published in the UK journal Gut.
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☕ We loved meeting the patients at Cramlington Medical Group and talking to them about #research at our #publicengagement coffee morning on 5th March, which we co-hosted with the lovely Northumbria Primary Care Research Team 🤝
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In March, we welcomed over 170 people from the local community, partners and collaborators, research participants and our researchers to NIHR Newcastle BRC Celebration of Research Excellence: Community Event.
Here is what they told us about their experience of the event 🎬 ⬇️
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Our NIHR Newcastle BRC Celebration of Research Excellence: Community Event gave local communities the chance to come along and learn more about our research, and see how we involve patients and communities at every stage.
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Building on 12 years of partnership with the Jain Foundation, the International Clinical Outcome Study for Dysferlinopathy (COS) has received a new grant (£5.1m) to support a further three year extension.
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Interesting panel discussion at the Newcastle Health Research Partnership conference on 'The power of partnership working - Driving impact through collaboration' yesterday.
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📻 Podcast! 📻
The Lancet Healthy Longevity in conversation with our very own @oldertrialsprof.bsky.social discussing the findings from our MET-PREVENT #clinicaltrial and the importance of designing clinical trials for #olderpeople
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NIHR Newcastle PSRC Safety Research Collaboration Logo Left hand side: Picutre of Dexter Canoy, QR code, to attend please can the QR code Right-hand side: NIHR Newcastle PSRC Academic Career Development Open Session Thursday 1st May 11.30 - 12.30 Howden Room, King George VI building. “Big data and cardiovascular disease prevention” DEXTER CANOY, MD MPhil PhD Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University The session aims to highlight some important questions around cardiovascular disease and its prevention. The presentation will explore how different disciplines and their analytical tools – from epidemiology, randomised trials, and machine intelligence – can be used in big data research to provide reliable evidence to advance knowledge in disease aetiology and inform clinical practice. Some of the challenges posed by multimorbidity in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease will also be discussed.
Our next Academic Career Development Open Session will be
"Big data and cardiovascular disease prevention“
Dexter Canoy, MD MPhil PhD, Newcastle University on Thursday, 1st May 2025, 11.30-12.30, Howden Room, King George VI Building.
Register forms.office.com/e/ZiiYtXkfL1
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Our NIHR Newcastle BRC funded MET-PREVENT trial now published - no improvement in physical performance or quality of life with 4 maths of metformin in older people with sarcopenia and frailty (but lots of side effects) @nihr.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social @nihrnewcastlebrc.bsky.social
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