Theme Co-Lead for Digital Health, Ageing Innovation and Inclusion and Professor of Human Movement Science
Professor Lynn Rochester is Professor of Human Movement Science at Newcastle University in the Translational and Clinical Research Institute. She is also a National Institute of Health Research Senior Investigator (2020-2024; 2024-2028) and Co-lead of the Digital Health Theme at the NIHR Newcastle BRC. Her main research interests are in gait and mobility loss in neurodegenerative disease and ageing. Her work focuses on motor and non-motor mechanisms of gait and falls, surrogate markers of neurodegenerative disease and disease progression (in particular cognitive decline and falls risk), development and evaluation of novel interventions, and technological applications in healthcare using digital technology. She established and leads the Brain and Movement Research Group (BAM) which comprises a diverse multidisciplinary team of clinical scientists, psychologists, data scientists and clinical engineers. She is the Co-ordinator for the Mobilise-D consortium funded through the EU IMIJ2 to develop and validate real-world digital mobility biomarkers. She serves on the International Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Society Task Force on Technology; the MJ Fox Foundation Endpoints Advisory Board and the UK Biobank Dementia working group. Previously, she led the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) Speciality Cluster E (2018-2021), where she had strategic oversight of the NIHR research portfolio in ageing, dementia, neurodegeneration, neurological disorders and genetics, and led national projects to optimise the research delivery in the UK such as NIHR-INCLUDE. She served as Director of the Clinical Ageing Research Unit (2016-2019) - a translational experimental clinical research facility aimed at aging.