JCU Events

Thu, 29 Apr 2021

Healthy Ageing Lecture #3: Strategies to Extend Healthy Longevity

When: 29 April 2021, 4:30pm to 5:30pm

Location:Online Webinar

Ageing is the biggest risk factor for a range of conditions that drive morbidity and mortality, and increase healthcare costs. While effort has been expanded to identify effective therapies for these conditions – including metabolic, neurodegenerative, cardiac and other syndromes – therapies have been hard to identify. A new strategy is to target the biggest risk factor – ageing itself. Dr Brian Kennedy will discuss known and novel ways to slow ageing in humans, including those affecting amino acid metabolism and discuss strategies for measuring and delaying ageing in humans.

Webinar time

4:30 pm GMT+8 (Singapore)

Speaker Profile

Dr Brian Kennedy

Dr Brian Kennedy is internationally recognized for his research in the basic biology of aging and as a visionary committed to translating research discoveries into new ways of delaying, detecting, and preventing human aging and associated diseases. He is a Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Physiology at National University Singapore and Director of the Centre for Healthy Longevity in the National University Health System. From 2010 to 2016 he was the President and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. Currently he remains as a Professor at the Institute.
Dr Kennedy also has an adjunct appointment at the USC Davis School of Gerontology. Additionally, Dr Kennedy is actively involved with biotechnology companies, serving in consulting and Board capacities, as well as Scientific Director of AFFIRMATIVhealth. Dr Kennedy serves as a Co-Editor-In-Chief at Aging Cell.