Steering Group

Professor Avan Aihie Sayer

  • Director of the NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre and Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Newcastle University.

Avan Sayer is Director of the NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre and Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Newcastle University. Her research takes a life course approach to understanding the ageing syndromes of sarcopenia, frailty and multimorbidity, and involves the translation of findings into new approaches to diagnosis, treatment and prevention.