Collaborations to maximise potential
Internationally respected researchers collaborate and share
responsibility for aspects of the NSHD clinic data collection
and the LHA scientific programmes.
Collaborations with external scientists are vital for
maximising the scientific potential of the NSHD. Each LHA
programme has named collaborators. A number of these
scientists are ‘key collaborators’ who are responsible for
aspects of the scientific programmes, the collection of high
quality specialist clinical data or the provision of capacity
building fellowships.
External scientists are also principal investigators,
co-investigators, or collaborators on grants awarded
by the MRC or other funding bodies for research on the
NSHD. These proposals often include other cohort studies.
LHA staff provide advice to bona fide researchers
wishing to access NSHD data for approved research
projects.
LHA currently has research links to 211 scientists in 49
academic institutions. A full list of our main
collaborators can be found by clicking here.
Current Collaborations
Collaborative grants led by LHA
- Lifetime affective problems & risk of
cardiovascular disease in early old age: a longitudinal birth
cohort study. (Professor Marcus Richards with Professor
Matthew Hotopf, Professor John
Deanfield, Professor Peter Friberg and Dr
Rebecca Hardy).
- Genetic investigation of life course phenotypes
of mental health and cognition. (Professor Marcus Richards,
co-led with Professor Peter Jones, University of
Cambridge).
- Healthy Ageing Across the
Life Course (HALCyon, PI: Professor Diana
Kuh)
- Function Across the Life
Course (FALCon, PI: Dr Rebecca Hardy)
Grants led by external scientists with LHA as
co-applicants
- University College London: Cohort
Resource Facility. (PI: Professor Jane
Elliot)
- University College
London: NSHD epigenetic study. (PI: Professor
Martin Widschwendter)
- University College London:
The Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre at UCL: Early
Intervention in Neurodegeneration. (PI: Professor Nick Fox/Dr
Jonathan Schott)
- Newcastle University: MRC Guidelines
on (bio)Markers of Healthy Ageing. (PI: Professor John
Mathers)
- Bristol University: The menopausal
transition & healthy ageing & wellbeing. (PI:
Professor Debbie Lawlor)
- Institute of Ageing at Newcastle University: an
inter-cohort study of the effects of biomarkers of ageing (such as
telomere length) on longevity, health and function status (PI:
Professor Thomas von Zglinicki).
- Imperial College London and a European FP7
consortium: a study on the effects of lifetime pollution exposure
on decline in adult lung function (PI: Dr Anna
Hansell)
- Imperial College London: a study of the life
course health effects of air pollution on cardiorespiratory
morbidity. (PI: Dr Anna Hansell)
- MRC Human Nutrition Research: a study of
lifetime eating behaviours and their impact on chronic disease (PI:
Dr Alison Stephen)
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
and Birmingham University on renal function (PI: Dr Dorothea
Nitsch)
- St. George’s Hospital Medical School, Glasgow
University, Imperial College and University College London on novel
risk markers for cardiovascular disease. (PI: Professor Peter
Whincup)
- The University College London, Edinburgh and
Bristol Consortium of population based prospective studies for a
programme in applied and translational cardiovascular genomics.
(PI: Professor Aroon Hingorani)
- University of Victoria in Canada on
integrative analysis of functional and cognitive change in the
IALSA and HALCyon longitudinal research networks. (PI: Professor
Scott Hofer) There were also ten new grants in 2007–2008 led
by external scientists with LHA as a collaborator.
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