About UKAN

Each network facilitated the development of new research approaches to the challenges and opportunities of our ageing population.

Meet the UKAN Directorate

Prof. Richard Faragher

UKAN Co-Director

Co-Director of BLAST Network and Professor of Biogerontology at University of Brighton

Prof. Lynne Cox

UKAN Co-Director

Co-Director of BLAST Network and Associate Professor in Biochemistry at University of Oxford

Dr. Kambiz Alavian

UKAN Deputy Director

Co-I of MyAge Network and Reader in Neuroscience at Imperial College London

Prof. Richard Hartley

UKAN Directorate Member

Co-I of BLAST Network and Professor of Chemical Biology at University of Glasgow

UKAN drew together 11 UK-wide ageing research networks to facilitate knowledge exchange, forge new collaborative links and enable novel research across all academic disciplines, with the aim of improving health and wellbeing for older adults.

UKAN also worked to become the voice for ageing researchers across the UK, working with older people’s groups, funders and policy makers as well as health care professionals and regulators to ensure that ageing research is properly resourced and that relevant findings are rapidly implemented into policy and practice.

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