Networks

The Ageing Research Collaborative Hub at Oxford unites and links University of Oxford expertise in all aspects of ageing. ARCH@Oxford  aims to promote interdisciplinary research in ageing across university departments and divisions, supporting both ongoing research and the establishment of new collaborative research projects and programmes with business, health care and community.

The Biogerontology Research Foundation is the UK’s leading non-profit foundation specifically focused on Longevity and on expediting the coming paradigm shift from disease treatment to personalized precision prevention. It was the main initial donor that provided financial and organisational support to Longevity International UK for the purpose of establishing the APPG for Longevity. It was also actively involved in the successful initiative of adding a new extension code for “ageing-related diseases” accepted in 2018 by the World Health Organization during the last revisions of its International Classification of Diseases framework.

The British Geriatrics Society is the membership association for professionals specialising in the healthcare of older people across the UK. Founded in 1947, they now have over 3,900 members, and they are the only Society in the UK offering specialist expertise in the wide range of healthcare needs of older people.

The British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA) is a scientific society which promotes research to understand the causes and effects of the ageing process. The BSRA encourages publication and public understanding of ageing research and holds an annual scientific meeting. Many notable scientists with an interest in ageing are either past or current members of the organisation, which has exerted a marked influence on ageing research within the United Kingdom and internationally.

The Centre for Ageing Better is a charity, funded by an endowment from The National Lottery Community Fund, working to create a society where everyone enjoys a good later life. We want more people in later life to be in good health, financially secure, to have social connections and feel their lives are meaningful and purposeful.

DPUK was funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to facilitate and accelerate the discovery of new ways to understand, diagnose, and treat dementia. It is a public-private partnership that offers facilitated access to detailed information for over 3 million individuals, from 47 long-term studies of health, known as 'cohort' studies. By joining data from all these studies, DPUK provides an integrated and collaborative environment, bringing together scientists from academia and industry to share knowledge and conduct joint research programmes. It is a foundation for new ways of working with academia, industry, regulators, health care providers, patients and the public.

Our focus for support is research into the mechanisms of ageing and innovation in the care of older people and offer a range of research project and studentship funding, both independently and in collaboration with partners such as the NIHR, British Geriatrics Society, Alzheimer’s Society and Action on Hearing Loss. We like to prioritise under-funded areas and multidisciplinary approaches to problem-solving.

We are delighted to work with the Longevity Forum which brings together two key pillars of the longevity debate – science and society. As science catches up with the human aspirations of living longer, a new approach to public health is urgently required. Their Juvenescence agenda advocates a new model for both health promotion and disease prevention which can support healthy longevity, increased life expectancy, improve overall productivity and ensure that healthcare spending is focused on preventing diseases of ageing rather than on curing them.

Ageing at Newcastle University is an extension of more than 20 years research. This positions Newcastle University Institute for Ageing amongst a handful of global leaders in the field. Led by Director, Professor Louise Robinson, we represent a significant number of academics, clinicians and researchers working on all aspects of ageing; from medical, biological and cellular, to psychosocial, economic and environmental. Our vision is to examine and seek better understanding on all aspects of ageing, in order to create a society where we all Live Better for Longer.

The Oxford Academic Health Science Network (Oxford AHSN) gets innovation into clinical practice to improve patient safety, outcomes and experience, and generate economic growth through collaboration between the NHS, industry and universities.

OxDARE brings together diverse groups who are involved in dementia and ageing research across Oxford's departments and institutes. OxDARE was founded by the NIHR Oxford BRC, and is now funded by the NIHR Oxford Health BRC (a partnership between Oxford Health NHS Trust and the University of Oxford).

The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing was established in 1998. Based on the US Population Center, it was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Health (National Institute on Aging - NIA) to establish the UK's first population centre on the demography and economics of ageing populations.  It achieved Institute status in 2001.

At SENS Research Foundation, we believe that a world free of age-related disease is possible. That's why we're funding work at universities across the world and at our own Research Center in Mountain View, CA. Our research emphasizes the application of regenerative medicine to age-related disease, with the intent of repairing underlying damage to the body's tissues, cells, and molecules. Our goal is to help build the industry that will cure the diseases of aging.