**Session Chair:** Prof Avan Aihie Sayer
 
 
Setting the translational research scene
 
**Speaker**: Prof Avan Aihie Sayer

Session 1 Welcome and Introduction

**Session Chairs:** Dr Richard Dodds and Dr Peggy Cawthon
 
 
The epidemiology and health costs of sarcopenia
 
**Speaker**: Dr Peggy Cawthon

Sarcopenia and multiple long-term conditions
 
**Speaker**: Dr Richard Dodds

Session 2 The Burden of Sarcopenia

**Session Chairs:** Dr Antoneta Granic and Prof Lynne Cox
 
 
Skeletal muscle biology – lessons for sarcopenia
 
**Speaker**: Prof Miranda Grounds

The biology of ageing – lessons for sarcopenia
 
**Speaker**: Prof Lynne Cox

Session 3 The Biology of Sarcopenia

**Session Chairs:** Dr Christopher Hurst and Prof Claire Stewart
 
 
Loss of skeletal muscle and development of
sarcopenia in ageing - a sports medicine
perspective
 
**Speaker**: Prof Michael Kjaer

The role of skeletal muscle ‘epi-memory’ in life
course influences on sarcopenia
 
**Speaker**: Prof Claire Stewart

Session 4 Insights from Sports Science

**Session Chairs:** Prof Avan Sayer and Prof Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft
 
 
The definition and diagnosis of sarcopenia
 
**Speaker**: Prof Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft

Sarcopenia in the acute setting
 
**Speaker**: Dr Thomas Jackson

Session 5 Sarcopenia in Clinical Practice

Close of Day

**Session Chairs:** Prof Sian Robinson and Prof Robin Daly
 
 
Prescribing exercise for the prevention and treatment
of sarcopenia
 
**Speaker**: Prof Robin Daly

The role of nutrition in the prevention and treatment of
sarcopenia
 
**Speaker**: Prof Sian Robinson

Session 6 Lifestyle Interventions

**Session Chairs:** Matthew Birkbeck, Leena Habiballa, and Karen Suetterlin
 
 
Next Generation Researchers

Session 7 Next Generation Researchers

**Session Chairs:** Prof Miles Witham and Dr Tea Shavlakadze
 
 
Drugs for sarcopenia – where are we now and where
do we want to be?
 
**Speaker**: Prof John Morley

Molecular Pathways of Ageing and Sarcopenia
 
**Speaker**: Dr Tea Shavlakadze

Session 8 Drug Interventions

**Session Chairs:** Prof Avan Aihie Sayer and Prof Miles Witham 
 
 
From discovery science to sarcopenia trials for the
21st century
 
**Speaker**: Prof Miles Witham

Next steps for our translational research community
 
**Speaker**: Q&A Panel

Session 10 Looking Ahead

Welcome to the inaugural International Sarcopenia Translational Research Conference.  “Where Worlds Meet” – the event brings together a broad range of researchers and practitioners in a truly interdisciplinary forum, covering discovery science through to clinical practice.

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Access to this event requires a registration. Please email Eleanor Lockhart at sarcconf@ncl.ac.uk if you have any questions regarding your registration. 

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