The BBSRC-MRC-funded UK-wide Ageing Research Networks (UKAN) – ATTAIN, BLAST, CFIN, ECMage, Food4Years, led by MyAge are forming a partnership with 14 institutions across the USA and Canada in response to the UKRI’s Strategic Theme around ‘securing Better Health, Ageing, and Wellbeing.’

Population ageing is a global issue that poses a number of problems in healthcare, society, and economics. Research in ageing currently focuses on many different aspects of ageing, from cells to society.

The aim of this global network is to bring together different aspects of this research and to create international activities to develop existing collaborations or support new ones with researchers from across the globe on several topics relevant to ageing research. The key focus is the challenge of healthy ageing especially in the last decade of life.

The future of healthy aging:

This UK-North American partnership will focus on two broad areas of research. One will be to explore the mechanisms of ageing, and the second will be to develop new interventions on topics ranging from biomedical to environmental and social factors that play a part in ageing.

Through an interdisciplinary approach, the researchers aim to explore how people age and start developing pharmaceutical, behavioural, lifestyle, and clinical ways that could help people age healthily and improve their lifespan.

Source: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/247356/global-ageing-research-consortium-tackles-challenge/