New mandate for Charlotte Beaudart boosts research on ageing

For nearly fifteen years, Charlotte Beaudart has been researching the physiological aspects of aging, exploring themes such as sarcopenia, frailty and intrinsic capacities.

Thanks to her Start-Up Collen-Francqui mandate, she will now be able to devote more time to her research. Time that she wishes to use on the one hand to strengthen her presence in international and interdisciplinary collaborations, and on the other to explore new dimensions in her research on aging."I would like to explore research in the field of osteosarcopenia, defined by the combination of sarcopenia and osteoporosis."

Charlotte Beaudart defines the majority of her research as "patient-centered". Her wish is to take this approach a step further and thus "more fully take into account the patient's preferences in terms of therapeutic modalities to adapt management proposals and thus hope for better treatment initiation and adherence."

In the course of her career as a researcher, Charlotte Beaudart has also developed several methodological expertises, skills in biostatistics and meta-synthesis of scientific literature, which are transposable to numerous themes. "This has already led to numerous interdisciplinary collaborations, for example with UNamur's pharmacy department, but also with several clinicians working in hospitals in the Namur region," continues the scientist. This new mandate will also enable her to further develop this aspect of her research, notably by training her teams in these rigorous methods and strengthening her internal collaborations.