Theme 1: Biology of ageing resilience (Bio-AR)

This theme brings together existing strengths from biological scientists across FoLSM and clinical academics. All working on ageing, from cells, to tissue samples and organoid cell cultures to whole organisms with cohorts. By bringing them together with clinical teams we will create a roadmap to accelerate translation to human settings.

Theme 2: Lifestyles and ageing resilience (Life-AR)

This theme links King’s strengths in ageing from nutrition, exercise, physiology, behaviour change modification, rehabilitation, social science, with health economics and MedTech to find new insight.

Theme 3: Environmental stressors and ageing resilience (ES-AR)

This theme will investigate how local and socio-economic environments in the UK and globally can be modified to promote ageing resilience as environmental stressors change and intensify.

Theme 4: Innovations to promote ageing resilience (Innovate-AR)

In the clinical sphere, as well as the development of new lab methodologies, informatics and AI-tools, to enable world-leading resilience research and novel techniques for older people to cope with clinical and social stressors.

Our Clinicians

This page showcases the wide array of clinical researchers interested in studying resilience in an ageing population.  This includes clinicians, who are actively conducting research as well as those who support and provide the research infrastructure to enable the wide array of research projects.

Faculty in Focus - Ageing Well

The King’s vision is to make the world a better place through excellence in teaching, research and service to society. Our themed Faculty campaigns showcase different ways we are working to achieve that vision, on a local and global scale.

Read all the stories in our latest campaign

We are delighted to announce that our next one-day CARICE conference is taking place on 23 April 2026 from 09:30 to 16:00 at the Governor’s Hall, St Thomas’ Hospital

This conference theme will be Lifestyle, Healthspan and Resilience 

This conference will explore how lifestyle factors can promote healthy ageing, with a focus on nutrition, exercise, and the microbiome.

Please visit this page for further details on the final programme and a link to register for the conference.

CARICE is inviting up to two Early Career Researchers (ECRs)—including Postdoctoral Researchers—to join its Governance Board and help shape the future direction of the Centre.

Joining the Board is a valuable opportunity to influence CARICE’s direction and ensure that the needs of our ECR community are represented.

This is a standing (ongoing) role in which you will contribute to both the strategic and operational management of CARICE. Board members are expected to:

• Attend monthly Governance Board meetings
• Work closely with the leadership team
• Ensure CARICE continues to reflect the needs and priorities of the ageing research community at King’s and beyond

If you are interested in joining this exciting initiative,
please complete the ECR Board Member Application Form  before the 30th April 2026.

We asked Dr Ruth Bowyer for her thoughts on joining the ECR Board.
Read her replies in this Q&A.

We are delighted to announce that we have completed our CARICE seed funding call of 2026 and we would like to thank everyone who took the time to prepare and submit an application.

We received 23 high quality applications, reflecting the innovation, creativity and interdisciplinary strength of ageing research across King’s and our partner institutions. Although we were able to fund 10 outstanding projects, the panel was impressed by the overall calibre of submissions, and the centre are sorry that funding did not allow us to support all the applications on this round. We encourage applicants who were not funded this time to apply again to our next seed funding call later in the year.