NIHR Newcastle BRC PhD Student & Clinical Research Associate

Sinead is a Clinical Research Associate in the AGE Research Group who is undertaking a PhD with the Ageing, Sarcopenia and Multimorbidity (ASM) Research Theme supported by the NIHR Newcastle BRC. Her PhD project involves the development and application of new methods to examine skeletal muscle mass and function. The aim of this work is to develop techniques suitable for clinical practice, to stratify and measure response in clinical trials designed for older people and larger scale population-based studies.