Bio

Internationally recognized for my research in the basic biology of aging and as a visionary committed to translating research discoveries into new ways of delaying, detecting, preventing and treating human aging and associated diseases. From 2010 to 2016 I was the President and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. Continuing my passion for longevity, I'm currently the Director of the Centre for Healthy Longevity at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at National University Singapore. I also serve as a Distinguished Professor in Biochemistry and Physiology. The Centre seeks to demonstrate that ageing interventions can be successfully employed in humans to extend healthspan, the disease-free and highly functional period of life. Other goals include world class preclinical research to better understand the biology of ageing and community-based approached to improve health quality with ageing in Singapore. I have adjunct appointments at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at USC and the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington, where I served as a faculty member from 2001 to 2010. In addition, I'm actively involved with a number of Biotechnology companies, serving in consulting and Board capacities, as is Scientific Director of Affirmative Health. Also serving as a Co-Editor-In-Chief at Aging Cell. Finally, setting my footprint internationally I have been in China, where I was a Visiting Professor at the Aging Research Institute at Guangdong Medical College from 2009 to 2014.