Contact Us | Site Map | Accessibility

Ageing: the best news for a billion years? Free Public Lecture in Oxford
09 July 2008

Programme

 

Why could a 400-year-old clam help you live to a healthy old age?  Do you have to choose between wrinkles and cancer?  Is ageing infectious and if so how do we catch it and can we cure it? Hear the answers to these and other questions at a public lecture on Wednesday 9th July from one of Britain's foremost experts on the ageing process.

Fresh from a gathering of the world's most respected ageing researchers at Oriel College Oxford, Dr Richard Faragher from the University of Brighton and an advisor to Research into Ageing, the biomedical arm of Help the Aged will take time out to explain just what their findings mean for today's older people and what they could mean for those who will be older in the future.

Dr Faragher is a director of SPARC, a publically funded network of the best and brightest scientists dedicated to finding ways to make later life better for older people in every possible way.

« Previous Page | Next Page »

Sidebar

SPARC & KT-EQUAL Workshops

Please refer to the KT-EQUAL website for forthcoming workshops.

Latest Executive Summaries and Monographs

Please refer to the KT-EQUAL website for recently issued monographs.

SPARC/KT-EQUAL Membership

Become a SPARC/KT-EQUAL Member (no charges) and receive updates and information about our work.

Please refer to the KT-EQUAL website for the current membership form.

The SPARC Story

Welcome to SPARC and KT-EQUAL: Knowledge Transfer for Extending Quality Life

SPARC brings together researchers, practitioners and policy makers in ageing. It specialises in communicating the latest design, engineering and biological ageing-related research to all stakeholders, making the case about the benefits for an ageing population of scientific research, and it encourages new blood into ageing research. Although funding for SPARC ended in December 2008, SPARC is continuing to function from the University of Reading within a new initiative - KT-EQUAL which commenced in January 2009. Soon KT-EQUAL will have its own website but for the time being news and information about SPARC and KT-EQUAL events are being handled by the SPARC website.

Latest Audio Files

SPARC Mission Statement

Supporting Older People by
Putting Research into Practice and
Actively Promoting Needs and Solutions through
Research Leadership and
Commitment

Partners

BBSRC - Biotechnological and Biological Sciences Research Council EPSRC - Engineering and Phsyical Sciences Research Council