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Professor Marion McMurdo from the University of Dundee has been appointed to Chair the Age and Ageing specialty group of the UK Clinical Research Network (UK CRN).

This newly formed specialty group will bring together researchers from throughout the United Kingdom to improve the delivery of UK CRN portfolio of research. It is the first clinical ageing

network with full UK coverage and offers collaborative research organisation and working in a way which has been lacking to date.

The Age and Ageing group’s first task will be to obtain an overview of ageing research in the UK via the CRN portfolio and then to work with researchers to reduce barriers to successful trial recruitment. The group can use evidence of research activity to justify the allocation of additional resource to ageing research via NHS support costs. Staff involved in trials featured on the portfolio have free access to national training and education programmes run via the UK CRN.

In the first instance, Clinical Leads from the Comprehensive Local Research Networks in England, together with research leaders from Scotland and Wales will form the core specialty group. The intention is to expand membership to include researchers from non-medical disciplines as well as lay representation.

BGS Newsletter, March 2009
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