Richard Faragher
Richard Faragher is Professor of Biogerontology at the University of Brighton, leading a lab that researchers cell senescence. He brings to the network management team a range of skills and experience including:
- Director of the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR).
- Previously chair of the British Society for Research on Ageing
- Help the Aged Living Legend awardee from for his championship of older people and the use of research for their benefit
- Awardee of the Lord Cohen Medal of the British Society for Research on Ageing
- Former trustee of Age Concern (Brighton & Hove)
- Co-director of SPARC, a £1.8million joint BBSRC and EPSRC capacity building and integrated networking activity that provided cross-disciplinary and early career support for emerging ageing researchers (e.g. through competitive pump-priming grants and networking events) and strengthened the relationship between the research community and end-users
Lynne Cox
Lynne Cox is head of the lab of Ageing and Cell Senescence at the University of Oxford, researching core biological drivers and biomarkers of ageing with expertise in cell senescence, premature ageing, model organisms and -omics biology. She has extensive experience of setting up networks, and organising and running workshops and conferences.
- Recipient of the US Glenn Foundation (USA) Award for research into biological mechanisms of ageing
- Co-founder of the Oxford Ageing network OxAgeN
- Strategy board member of the Oxford Ageing Research Collaborative Hub
- Clinical and Translational Science panel member of the Biochemical Society
- Member, MRC strategy group on ageing
- Strategic Advisory Board and the Science, Technology and Genomics Board member of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Longevity
- Former Trustee of the British Society for Research on Ageing
- Quinquennial review panel member of the US National Institute of Aging Division of Aging Biology
- Primary International member NO-Age, Norwegian Healthy Ageing Institute
- Co-chair of the Biology of Ageing SIG for the European Geriatric Medicine Society, which is working to establish new training courses and accredited clinical/biomedical research training across Europe
Colin McClure
Colin McClure is a newly appointed Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences, Queens University, Belfast. His research interests focus on the genetics which underpin life history dimorphism and ageing between the sexes, through the application of new methods of cell-selective chromatin-binding protein profiling.
He also has a keen interest in the promotion of cross disciplinary training for early career staff and students.
Richard Hartley
Richard Hartley is Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Glasgow. He applies chemical approaches to the elucidation and manipulation of biological processes at the cellular and whole organism levels.
As the developer of the anti-stroke compound ProxisonTM (spun-out through the company Antoxis), he has wide research experience in oxidative stress as the chemical hub of multi-centre, cross-disciplinary teams. Richard also brings extensive experience of industrial collaborations, having designed molecular probes now marketed world-wide by Cayman Chemical, Abcam and Sigma.
Patricia Kolaiti
Patricia is the BLAST research network manager. A previous Marie Curie research fellow at the University of Sussex, she brings to the BLAST network extensive experience of organising academic research activities.