Professor Avan Aihie Sayer is an Honorary Consultant Geriatrician whose sub-speciality interests are in sarcopenia, frailty and multiple long-term conditions.
A Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Newcastle University, Avan is an NIHR Senior Investigator and Director of the National Institute for Health Research Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre
Professor Sayer says that Newcastle’s reputation for excellence in ageing research combined with the opportunity to lead the Biomedical Research Centre, considered by many to be the ‘jewel in the crown’ of NIHR research infrastructure, were key to her decision to move to Newcastle in 2016.
Major research contributions to date include (i) discovery of early life influences on human ageing; (ii) development of a life course approach to skeletal muscle health, ageing and disease and (iii) building UK capacity in translational ageing research to improve health and healthcare in later life.
