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Prestigious Fellowship Awarded to Advance Healthy Ageing Research

Dan Hayman has been awarded the The Dunhill Medical Trust Early Career Fellowship, a prestigious opportunity supporting early career researchers in the field of healthy ageing.
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New paper highlights how musical interactions can support relationships for people living with dementia

Researchers from the University of Sheffield have reassessed the goals of music interactions for people with dementia.
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New research reveals link between air pollution and water quality and people having multiple long term chronic conditions

Research from the Healthy Lifespan Institute has identified a new link between air pollution and water quality with multimorbidity.
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Art and academia: Healthy Lifespan Institute members present research at the Festival of the Mind

This year, Professor Ilaria Bellantuono and Dr Lee Pretlove shared their research discoveries with the general public at Sheffield’s Festival of the Mind.
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The case for an intersectional life course perspective in understanding unequal ageing

Dr Dan Holman and Professor Alan Walker call for intersectionality to be incorporated into ageing research with a life course perspective.
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Arthritis drug to be investigated as possible treatment for vascular dementia

Scientists to investigate the links between vascular dementia and heart disease, and test whether a drug currently used to treat arthritis could also be used as a treatment for vascular dementia.
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Collaboration with international colleagues establishes new Middle East and North Africa Research network on Healthy Ageing

The network brings together those interested in healthy ageing research across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region
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Senescence and Cancer: A review of clinical implications of senescence and senotherapies

A review into senescence and cancer by a new collaborative team including experts from the Healthy Lifespan Institute and the Mayo Clinic is published in the Cancers journal special issue "Senescence and Cancer"
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The Healthy Lifespan Institute receives funding from prestigious foundation to identify molecular inhibitors of inflammation in autoimmune and age-related diseases

The Healthy Lifespan Institute at the University of Sheffield has received full funding for a new PhD studentship from the Lorna and Yuti Chernajovsky Biomedical Research Foundation.