News & Events

LHA PhD student Lamia Al Saikhan awarded the Young Investigator 3rd Prize at Artery 2019 in Budapest.

Lamia won the award for her presentation entitled 'Arterial stiffness partly explains sex differences in associations between left ventricular structure and mortality: the Southall and Brent revisited (SABRE) study'

LHA PhD student Hannah Taylor awarded the British and Irish Hypertension Society (BIHS) Young Investigators Award for 2019.

Hannah won the award for her presentation  ‘Height is not an appropriate index of left ventricular mass in healthy adolescents: Sex and size differences in Left ventricular mass indexation’.  Hannah now gets the opportunity to present her research in Italy next year as part of the BIHS reciprocal exchange programme.

Sir Keir Starmer visit.

Sir Keir Starmer, Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the EU and MP for Holborn and St Pancras visited the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing (MRC LHA at UCL) on 28 June to learn about the unit's research. Professor Nish Chaturvedi, Director of the MRC LHA at UCL, and members of her team presented an overview of the unit and its mission to better understand the determinants of healthy ageing. 

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LHA PhD student Lamia Al Saikhan awarded the ‘Best of the Best’ Clinical Abstract – Imaging Award at the 2019 British Cardiovascular Society Annual Meeting.

Congratulations to Lamia , who won ‘Best of the Best’ Clinical Abstract – Imaging Award  at the British Cardiovascular Society Annual meeting for her work on the SABRE study. The title of her presentation was '3D echocardiography-derived indices of left ventricular function and structure predict long-term mortality differently in men and women: the Southall And Brent Revisited (SABRE) study'.

Dr Dan Davis and the team at LINKAGE have worked with Liminal Space to create a free exhibition 'Unclaimed', now on at the Barbican. 

Unclaimed takes inspiration from lost property offices and you will be able to pick up items to discover the surprising, illuminating or ‘unclaimed’ stories that emerged.

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Life Course Golf Course

Staff from the LHA and the Centre for Longitudinal Studies helped navigate Green Man Festival goers through life’s twists and turns by playing the Life Course Golf Course. 

• Read our blog about the event