Head of the University’s Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, Professor Malcolm Jackson has been awarded the Edward F. Adolph Distinguished Lectureship by the Environmental and Exercise Physiology section of the American Physiological Society at their Annual Scientific Meeting at the Experimental Biology conference in San Diego.
Professor Jackson specialises in issues around ageing and molecular and cellular physiology. As well as being head of the Institute, he is also Director of the MRC-Arthritis Research UK Centre for Integrated Research into Musculoskeletal Ageing (CIMA), as well as serving on the MRC Population and Systems Medicine Board and the Joint Research Councils’ Life Long Health and Wellbeing panel.
The recipient of the Edward F. Adolph Distinguished Lectureship is recognised as an eminent research scholar who has made significant contributions to environmental, exercise and thermal physiology.