Interdisciplinary understanding of age

Ageing is not a disease, but the risk factors for a long range of serious diseases are directly correlated with the age of the individual. Therefore, to better understand, prevent, and treat this large group of diseases, it makes sense to investigate the disease as a function of the aging individual in both a biological and a societal aspect.

Ageing is an extremely complex and multifaceted process that requires an interdisciplinary approach to understand. The primary focus of the project "Interdisciplinary understanding of age-related diseases" is to take advantage of already existing monodisciplinary research projects from diverse disciplines and provide a collaborative framework that will bridge these projects and provide truly interdisciplinary and synergetic outcomes. The network will bridge the interdisciplinary gap between cellular and molecular biology, clinical research, and social sciences.

The network will have three primary areas of focus:

Educating the next generation of interdisciplinary researchers: The network aims to develop training opportunities for Ph.D. students and other early-career researchers, allowing them to understand and take advantage of an interdisciplinary approach to ageing research from an early point of their career. This will be in the form of PhD courses and the offer of PhD mobility between different research disciplines.

Exploiting synergies between already existing projects: The network will identify and develop potential interdisciplinary collaboration endeavours between already existing monodisciplinary projects, and thereby ensure a higher interdisciplinary output of already funded projects.

Identifying new interdisciplinary collaboration funding opportunities: The members of the network will develop new interdisciplinary projects and together with experts within national and EU funding bodies develop funding opportunities. This will ensure the continuation of the network.

Contact

Claus Desler Madsen
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
cdesler@sund.ku.dk 

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