Dr David Bann
David began a
3-year MRC Career Development Fellowship in 2013 to work on a
number of research projects. The main project will use newly
collected measures of adult endocrine and metabolic function
(including IGF-1/2 and testosterone) to investigate the life course
predictors of this function and its implications for
musculoskeletal, cognitive and cardiovascular function. This is
supervised by Prof. Yoav Ben-Shlomo and Dr Ken Ong, and in
collaboration with Professors Jeffrey Holly and Fred Wu, Dr Hany
Lashen, and with Prof. Diana Kuh and Dr Rachel Cooper.
David’s PhD (2009–2012) investigated the life course
determinants of body composition in early old age (60–64y)—dual
energy X-ray absorptiometry measures of fat and lean mass, and fat
distribution. The determinants included indicators of socioeconomic
position across life, repeat measures of growth, and physical
activity (assessed both objectively and by self-report). David’s
PhD was supervised by Prof. Diana Kuh, Dr Rachel Cooper and Dr
Andrew Wills.
In 2011 David was awarded the Emerging Scholar and Professional
Organization Interdisciplinary Paper Award at the Gerontological
Society of America (Boston, USA), and in 2012 was awarded an MRC
Centenary Early Career Award to undertake a research project
abroad.
David previously completed an honours degree in Biology and
Psychology at Stirling University (2.1), before completing a
Master’s of Research degree in Evolutionary Biology and Systematics
at Glasgow University (Distinction). David then worked as a
technical editor in a clinical medicine journal and then as a
freelance editor.
Selected publications and oral conference
presentations
Cooper R, Hardy R, Bann D, Aihie Sayer A, Ward KE, Kuh D. BMI
across adulthood and sarcopenia in early old age: Findings from a
British birth cohort study. Presented at the Internatoinal
conference on Saropenia Research, Orlando, USA, 2012.
Bann D, Cooper R, Wills A, Sayer AA, Adams J, Kuh D.
Socioeconomic patterning of fat and lean mass in later life:
findings from a British birth cohort study. J Epidemiol Community
Health 2012; 66(Suppl):A1. Presented at the Society for Social
Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, London, UK, 2012.
Ong KK, Bann D, Wills AK, Ward K, Hardy R, Kuh D; on behalf of
the National Survey of Health and Development Scientific and Data
Collection Team. Timing of Voice Breaking in Males Associated with
Growth and Weight Gain Across the Life Course. J Clin Endocrinol
Metab. 2012; 97(8): 2844-2852.
Bann D, Cooper R, Wills A, Adams J, Kuh D. Is Prenatal Growth
Associated with Body Composition in Later Life? Findings from a
British Cohort. Presented at the Gerontological Society of America,
Boston, USA, 2011.
Bann D, Cooper R, Wills A, Adams J, Kuh D. Associations between
birth weight and body composition in later life: Preliminary
findings from a British birth cohort study. J Epidemiol Community
Health 2011; 65(Suppl):A3. Presented at the Society for Social
Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, Warwick, UK, 2011.
Larcombe SD, Coffey JS, Bann D, Alexander L, Arnold KE. Impacts
of dietary antioxidants and flight training on post-exercise
oxidative damage in adult parrots. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem
Mol Biol. 2010;155(1):49-53.