By conducting integrative workshops, summer schools and journal clubs, supporting new research through pump-priming funding, as well as establishing a significant online and social media community, we aim to facilitate interaction between network members to increase knowledge of health-limiting ageing biology mechanisms and ensure effective dissemination of advances, including provision of clinical training resources.
We have partnered with academics across STEMM, social sciences and humanities disciplines, as well as biotechnologists, industry, funders, health care professionals, economists and policy makers to work together to identify effective interventions in ageing processes and develop routes for translation to improve health in later.
BLAST aims to:
- break down silos between researchers in the life, environmental, medical, physical, and social sciences
- facilitate interaction between network members to increase knowledge of health-limiting ageing biology mechanisms and ensure effective dissemination of advances, including provision of clinical training resources
- partner with biotechnologists, health care professionals, social scientists, economists and policy makers to identify effective interventions in ageing processes and develop routes for translation to improve health in later life
- focus on increasing scientific understanding of the mechanistic drivers of biological ageing that diminish healthspan and lifespan, and predictive/diagnostic biomarkers of age-related poor health.
We will do this by:
- establishing a significant online and social media community to increase user engagement and to provide accessible platforms to spread reliable science-based information abouthealthy longevity
- holding integrative workshops, summer schools and journal clubs
- supporting new research through pump-priming funding
- working with other interdisciplinary ageing networks under the umbrella of UKANet (UK ageing network)
