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Programme 1: Musculoskeletal health in later life
Programme Leaders:
- Professor Cyrus Cooper
- Professor Elaine Dennison
- Professor Nicholas Harvey
- Dr Kate Ward UoS MRC
- Professor Keith Godfrey
- Professor Nigel Arden
- Dr M Kassim Javaid
- Professor Dani Prieto-Alhambra
Programme 1 aims to understand:
- The changing descriptive epidemiology of musculoskeletal diseases; osteoporosis (low trauma fractures), sarcopenia (low muscle mass and strength) and osteoarthritis (joint disease) in adult populations.
- The underlying determinants of bone and muscle health across later adulthood.
- Identify and test novel strategies to optimize muscle and bone health in older age
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Programme 2: Determinants of musculoskeletal health in the mid-lifecourse
Programme Leads:
- Professor Karen Walker-Bone
- Professor Elaine Dennison
- Dr Kate Ward
- Professor Cyrus Cooper
- Emeritus Professor David Coggon
Our aims are to:
- reduce the disability for work caused by musculoskeletal disorders
- further explore the impacts of working to older ages on health and future healthy retirement
- prevent musculoskeletal disorders caused by work
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Programme 3: Early development and risk of adult musculoskeletal disease
- Professor Nicholas Harvey
- Professor Elaine Dennison
- Dr Kate Ward
- Professor Cyrus Cooper
Aim: To elucidate the risk factors for, and mechanisms which underlie, the developmental origins of osteoporosis and other musculoskeletal disorders; and to develop intervention studies aimed at modifying later disease risk through nutritional and other interventions targeted at critical periods of early development.
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Programme 4: Early nutrition intervention studies
Senior Scientists
- Professor Janis Baird
- Professor Keith Godfrey
- Dr Kalyanaraman Kumaran
- Professor Karen Lillycrop
- Professor Mary Barker
- Dr Wendy Lawrence
- Professor Caroline Fall
- Professor Hazel Inskip
- Professor Nicholas Harvey
- Professor Karen Walker-Bone
- Professor Kate Ward
- Professor Cyrus Cooper
The overarching objectives are to optimise diet behaviours and nutrition before conception and during pregnancy to improve the capacity and health of the next-generation, and to understand the mechanisms linking pre-conception and fetal nutrition to lifelong health.
Data Sharing
We are keen to maximise the use of data from our cohorts, trials and other studies, and welcome approaches from researchers to explore use of the data. We have a procedure for data sharing to ensure that we preserve the confidentiality of the data and we need to abide by the terms of participant consent for each study. Our model for data sharing is a collaborative one and we work with researchers using the data to support them in the interpretation of the various data variables and of their findings. If you are interested in using our data, please email the Centre on mrclec@mrc.soton.ac.uk