The mission of the Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing (ARCHA) is to understand, predict and prevent age-related degeneration. We have a specific focus on: the eye, the mind, metabolism, medicines and devices in the context of the biology and psychology of ageing, how engineering can be used to support heathy ageing, and clinical aspects to healthy ageing and ageing lives. 

Our cross-disciplinary team of researchers specialise in biology, psychology, allied health sciences, business, engineering, social sciences and humanities. Research within the Centre contributes to two of the College of Life and Health Sciences’ four key multidisciplinary themes; cellular and molecular biomedicine, and health and disease across the lifespan.