UK SPINE Conference: The Age of Healthspan
Speakers
Pro-Vice Chancellor for Innovation, University of Oxford
Deputy Director, Research Services, University of Oxford
Regius Professor of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Professor of Innovation Management, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School
Chair of Clinical, Metabolic & Molecular Physiology
Skeletal Ageing and Repair group, Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford
Director, Academic Liaison, GlaxoSmithKline
University of Birmingham, Director of the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing
Lecturer for Translational biology of ageing, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University
Author and Co-founder of iCancer
Institute of Inflammation and Ageing
Booths
UK SPINE
National network of research & clinical collaborators developing new medicines in healthy ageing, with Oxford, Birmingham, Dundee, the Crick & MD Catapult.
Creative Destruction Lab
Build Something Massive
Pharmaco-epidemiology for discovery of targets and modulating strategies to protect against age-related macular degeneration
Project lead: Wen Hwa Lee, Action Against Age-related Macular Degeneration (AAAMD)
The Impact on NHS Costs of Delaying the Onset of Multi-morbidity in Old Age (INCDOM)
Project lead: Stuart Redding, Centre for Health Services, Economics and Organisation, University of Oxford
Targeting Autophagy for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis
Project lead: Ghada Alsaleh, University of Oxford
Identifying factors that restore DNA repair in ageing cells through WRN reactivation
Project lead: Lynne Cox, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
A translational pathway to address tissue hypoxia and its consequences using novel oxygen nanobubble delivery technology
Project lead: Professor Duncan Richards, Nuffield department of orthopaedics, rheumatology and musculoskeletal sciences, University of Oxford
Exploring the use of Raman microscopy to determine mitochondrial function and mitochondrial drug accumulation in aging model systems
Project lead: Karl Morten, University of Oxford
Committed Philanthropy
Project lead: Heather Draper, University of Warwick
Identifying potential targets for age-related multimorbidity
Project lead: Clare West, University of Oxford
Data Science X Biomedical Science Summer School with KQ Labs, Entrepreneurs First, the Alan Turing Institute, and the Francis Crick Institute
Project lead: Barbara Domayne-Hayman, The Francis Crick Institute
A Roadmap of Current Needs in Drug Discovery for Healthy Ageing
Project lead: Graeme Wilkinson, Medicines Discovery Catapult
Evaluation of epigenetic targets in ageing
Project lead: Panagis Filippakopoulos, University of Oxford
Impacts of Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) inhibition on aged human muscle
Project lead: Professor Philip Atherton, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham
Pre-clinical validation of novel candidate senolytics
Project lead: Dr Satomi Miwa, Professor Thomas von Zglinicki, Newcastle University
Accelerating Novel Treatments for Ageing and Age-Related Disease
Project lead: Thomas Jackson, University of Birmingham
Accelerating the Development of Drug Repositioning and Combination Therapies for Healthy Ageing
Project lead: John P. Overington, Medicines Discovery Catapult
Identification of Novel Epigenetic Targets to Re-activate Exhausted and Senescent T Cells
Project lead: Annette von Delft, University of Oxford
Identification of lipid mediators provided by autophagy that polarize anti-inflammatory macrophages
Felix Richter, Professor Katja Simon, Nuffield department of orthopaedics, rheumatology and musculoskeletal sciences, University of Oxford
Visualizing protein misfolding in brain ageing
Project lead: Dr Sonia Gandhi, the Francis Crick Institute
Ageing Therapeutics
Project lead: David Gray, University of Dundee
Targeting Age-Related Multi-Morbidities with Bisphosphonates
Project lead: James Edwards, University of Oxford
Novel Blood Biomarkers for Ageing Phenotypes
Project lead: James Edwards, University of Oxford and Eugene McCloskey, University of Sheffield
Biomarkers of Multimorbidity
Project lead: Carl Heneghan and Elizabeth Spencer, University of Oxford
Drug Discovery in Ageing
Project lead: Janet Lord, University of Birmingham
Efficient Lung Drug Delivery Systems
Project lead: Esra Sorguven, University of Sussex
Comprehensive and collaborative screening of small molecule inhibitors across a range of disease-specific assays in ageing and inflammation
Project lead: Cassandra Adams, Centre for Medicines Discovery, University of Oxford