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- Category: Awards, Funding, Korenchevsky
Fresh from her trip to Utah, our 2025 Korenchevsky Award winner, Loren Kell, tells us all about it: The British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA) annual meeting had been on my radar for many years, but the 74th annual meeting in Manchester in 2025 was my first. I was delighted that my abstract had
- Category: Awards, Funding, Fundraising, News
The BSRA is delighted to announce the award of a record 18 small research grants across 13 UK institutions in its 2026 round, thanks to sponsorship from DoNotAge.org and Quest NutraPharma. Many of the recipients are Early Career Researchers, providing them an essential stepping stone in their careers and increasing their chances of becoming future
- Category: Awards, Funding, Fundraising
Dr Laura Sinclair, Exeter University, was awarded a BSRA Travel Grant in 2025, which she used to attend our ASM in Manchester. Here she explains the impact of a travel grant on an Early Career Researcher: I was delighted to receive a BSRA Travel Grant to attend the annual meeting in Manchester in September 2025.
- Category: Uncategorized
In 2025, Prof Lord Kakkar, Chair of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR), invited the Chair of the BSRA, Professor David Weinkove, to produce a report outlining the barriers to translation for researchers in the biology of ageing. Together with BSRA Trustee, Jon Houseley, a Group Leader at the Babraham Institute, David
- Category: Awards, Funding, Fundraising, News, Uncategorized
The BSRA is delighted to announce that Quest NutraPharma responded to our Six for 2026 fundraising campaign with a generous offer to fund three of our Small Research Grants. BSRA member, Dr Ahmed Hassam, read our campaign email and got in touch to discuss the potential for Quest NutraPharma to support it. Ahmed came to
- Category: Awards, Funding, Fundraising
In 2024, the BSRA awarded 3 Small Research Grants, 4 Travel Grants and 2 Summer Studentships. One of the Summer Studentships went to Phoebe Bedford at the University of Oxford – and this is what she had to say about the experience: ‘Having just completed my second year studying Biology at Oxford, I was lucky