Speaker: Professor Brian K. Kennedy, Director, Centre for Healthy Ageing, NUHS, Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Physiology, NUS Medicine, Senior Principal Investigator, SICS A*STAR & Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging

This lecture discusses the biggest risk factor for the vast majority of chronic diseases: ageing. As the Singapore population gets older, it will be critical to devise novel and effecive strategies to mitiate the effects of ageing, which include the appearance of chronic diseases and functional decline. Prof Kennedy will describe insights from the last three decades of ageing biology, and identify pathways that govern ageing and strategies to apply interventions in humans. Strategies for clinical studies in humans designed to prevent ageing, delay disease onset and progression, and maintain function later in life will be shared.

Registration & breakfast at 7.10am, talk begins at 7.40am.