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Prof Uri Alon
Prof Alon is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Cell Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science and serves as the Course Scientific Assistant for Endocrinology and Fertility in the Human Body by Systems at the Weizmann Medical School. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics and is internationally recognized for his pioneering work in systems biology, focusing on the design principles of biological circuits, endocrinology and ageing. He has authored influential textbooks and his work has been widely published in top journals, e.g., Science, Nature, and Cell. Prof. Alon is also a dedicated educator and mentor who has been driving several initiatives that promote inclusivity and professional development for the academic community.
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Prof Marija Cvijovic
Prof Marija Cvijovic holds a professorship in computational biology at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges mathematics, biology, and computational methods, making her a leading figure in computational biology research. Prof. Cvijovic’s innovative work focuses on creating efficient methods for developing multiscale computational models, integrating large-scale biological data to understand mechanisms behind processes involved in ageing. In addition, Prof. Cvijovic is deeply committed to mentoring students and leading significant international initiatives, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration in the computational biology community.
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Prof Vadim Gladyshev
Dr Gladyshev is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for Redox Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and faculty member of the Broad Institute. Dr. Gladyshev’s lab focuses on studying ageing, rejuvenation and lifespan control using a combination of experimental and computational approaches. He has published more than 450 articles. Dr. Gladyshev is the recipient of NIH Pioneer, Transformative and Eureka awards and is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.
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Prof Matt Kaeberlein
Prof Kaeberlein is the Chief Executive Officer at Optispan, Inc., Affiliate Professor of Oral Health Sciences at the University of Washington, and Co-Director of the Dog Ageing Project. Dr. Kaeberlein’s research interests are focused on understanding biological mechanisms of ageing in order to facilitate translational interventions that promote healthspan and improve quality of life for people and companion animals. He has published more than 250 scientific papers in the field of ageing biology and has received several prestigious awards. Dr. Kaeberlein is the founding Director of the University of Washington Healthy Ageing and Longevity Research Institute and former CEO and Chair of the American Ageing Association.
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Prof Andrew Teschendorff
Prof Teschendorff is a Principal Investigator at the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he leads a lab in Computational Systems Epigenomics, with a research focus on ageing and cancer-risk. He trained as a Mathematical Physicist at the University of Edinburgh (BSc, 1990-1995) and Cambridge University (MASt & PhD, 1996-2000). He held numerous prestigious awards and fellowships, including a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher award in recognition of how his work has influenced the epigenomics, ageing and cancer systems biology fields.
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A/Prof Morten Scheibye-Knudsen
Prof Morten Scheibye-Knudsen did his medical training at the University of Copenhagen including a short scholarship investigating mitochondrial physiology. After practicing medicine in Denmark and Greenland, he joined the National Institute on Ageing, NIH, as a post-doctoral fellow. In 2016 he returned to Copenhagen to start his own research program focusing on ageing with the mission of allowing people to live healthier and longer lives. His team utilizes computational science and high-throughput approaches to understand the molecular basis of ageing and develop interventions for healthy ageing in humans and animal models.
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Dr Feng Ling
Dr Feng Ling is the manager of Complex Systems group at the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, and adjunct assistant professor in the department of Physics, National University of Singapore. His research specializes in complex systems research, both in theoretical foundations and practical problems, ranging from the statistical physics behind deep learning to complex networks in social systems. In his theoretical studies, he looks at the complexity and phase transition phenomena in artificial neural networks, trying to uncover the working principle of deep learning. He has also been working on the various percolation transition phenomenon in inter-dependent complex networks to develop frameworks to construct different phases in spreading phenomena. In the application of complexity theories, he has applied complex network theories to various social and economic networks ranging from social media, financial networks and blockchain networks, building predictive algorithms in synergy with various machine learning algorithms.
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Dr Yifan Yang
Dr. Yifan (Yi-Fan) Yang is a principal investigator at Westlake University in Hangzhou, China. His research focuses on the systems biology of aging, leveraging tools from nonlinear dynamics, statistical physics, and quantitative physiology to uncover fundamental principles of aging and damage dynamics. From 2019 to 2024, he conducted postdoctoral research with Uri Alon at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he advanced the understanding of aging through the lens of systems biology. Dr. Yang earned his B.S. in mathematics and life sciences from Yuanpei College, Peking University, in 2008 and completed his master’s (2011) and doctoral (2016) degrees at the University of Paris (Paris V) under the mentorship of François Taddei and Ariel Lindner.
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Dr Weilan Wang
Dr Weilan Wang
Dr. Weilan Wang, currently a Research Fellow at the Academy for Healthy Longevity at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She specializes in data science and biostatistics with a specific focus on promoting healthy longevity. Her expertise lies in predicting adverse health outcomes and exploring the effect of geroprotectors. Dr Wang’s interests extend to analyzing multi-omics data derived from various cohort studies, contributing to the healthy longevity research.
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Dr Peter Fedichev
Dr Fedichev is CEO and Co-founder of Gero, a data-driven longevity biotech company that develops new drugs against ageing and other complex diseases using AI-platform. Obtaining his PhD from the University of Amsterdam, his scientific background lies in the intersection of physics and biology, with specific expertise in condensed matter physics, biophysics, and bioinformatics. Dr Fedichev is an author of more than 100 published papers in multiple domain areas, including publications in Science and Nature Communications. His work has provided key contributions to the theoretical understanding of the ageing process, the rate of ageing, and the limits of lifespan and age reversion.
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Prof Andrew Rutenberg
Prof Rutenberg is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University. He is specially fascinated by nonlinear, nonequilibrium, and often stochastic and dynamical aspects of biology. His research team uses computational approaches to bring a quantitative theoretical approach to important biological systems, with the goal of modelling, characterising, and predicting organismal aging and mortality of both humans and model organisms. One of his key research interests is to study the aging of collagen fibrils, leveraging the tools of soft-matter physics with coarse-grained models.
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Dr Michael Rera
Dr Rera is a CNRS researcher in the Jacques Monod Institute (Université Paris Cité). He earned his PhD in genetics with a specialization on the biology of ageing. He has been developing a novel model of ageing where it is made of two distinct and consecutive phases separated by a sharp transition that can be detected experimentally. His research group focuses on how to use this model to better understand the driving mechanisms of ageing, its evolution and how translating the model to humans could help public health policies.
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Kamil Konrad Pabis
Kamil Pabis is an ageing researcher, graduate student and longevity advocate with several years of experience in the ageing field that spans multiple continents. Among other projects, Kamil worked on long-lived dwarf mice and iron homeostasis in Austria, on mitochondrial disease and ageing in the UK, and finally on the bioinformatics of ageing in Germany. His work at the Center for Healthy Longevity in Singapore focuses on combination therapies to extend murine lifespan, foundational questions and epistemic controversies in Geroscience. As part of his outreach and advocacy efforts he founded the Singapore Longevity and Health Meetup and the ’Geroscience’ substack.
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Dr Kumar Selvarajoo
Kumar Selvarajoo graduated with a MEng in Aeronautical Engineering from the Imperial College, London, and a PhD in Computational Biology from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Currently, he is a Senior Principal Investigator at the Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and at the School of Biological Sciences, NTU. Prior, he was an Associate Professor in Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Japan. His lab focuses on Systems Biology and Omics Machine Learning methods to understand a wide variety of biological complexities in cancer, immunology, and synthetic biology applications.
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Asst Prof Yong Ee Hou
Ee Hou YONG, an Assistant Professor at the Division of Physics and Applied Physics in the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
Our group works on theoretical problems in biological and statistical physics, ranging from the morphology of living systems, Physics of non-equilibrium complex systems, collective behavior in nature, topology-enhanced physical models for biopolymer, etc.
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Weihan Huai
Weihan Huai is a PhD candidate at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. As a dedicated researcher, he focuses on systematically elucidating the complex mechanisms of aging and identifying novel anti-aging compounds using approaches from bioinformatics, systems biology, and machine learning. Additionally, he works on predicting and identifying potential synergistic drug pairs for anti-aging interventions.
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Prof Steffen Rulands
Steffen Rulands is a professor in theoretical physics at the LMU Munich. He obtained his PhD in theoretical physics at the LMU in 2013, went on to do a postdoc at the university of Cambridge and became a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden in 2017. His group uses methods from theoretical physics to understand collective phenomena in biology and artificial intelligence. He is particularly interested how the interplay between the one-dimensional and the three-dimensional genome gives rise to collective epigenetic processes during ageing, rejuvenation and regeneration.
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Prof Rong Li
Professor Rong Li came from Johns Hopkins University where she served as the Director of the Center for Cell Dynamics in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She has had over 25 years of independent research on cellular dynamics and mechanics employing interdisciplinary approaches. She was recruited to NUS in 2019 as the second Director of MBI succeeding Professor Michael Sheetz.
The diverse projects in Professor Rong Li’s lab contribute to two main research thrusts: cell and tissue aging; cellular and organismal adaptation.
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A/Prof Jan Gruber
Dr. Gruber is Associate Professor at Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He obtained a PhD in molecular biophysics from Oxford University. He founded and is currently leading the Caenorhabditis elegans ageing laboratory, combining this experimental model with computational biology to understand and intervene with molecular mechanisms of ageing and age-dependent diseases. His research group focuses on studying biomarkers of oxidative damage, the role of mitochondria and free radicals in ageing and age-dependent diseases, and ageing evolution.
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Dr Maximilian Unfried
Dr. Max Unfried holds a position as a Research Fellow at the esteemed Center for Healthy Longevity at the National University of Singapore. In the dynamic field of longevity science, he has carved a niche with his focused research on the systems biology of aging, delving deep into biomarkers of cellular health, and investigating the pivotal role of psychedelics in advancing healthy longevity medicine. His innovative research approach is a confluence of Artificial Intelligence, Complex Systems, and Molecular Biology, working synergistically to unravel the complexities of aging. With his expertise in bridging the world between academic science and the business of science, he serves as a trusted scientific advisor to startups, venture capital firms, and family offices. A respected voice in the longevity community, Max often shares his insights and findings as a speaker and panelist at notable longevity conferences worldwide.
His dedication to the field has not only fostered rich discussions and propelled the science forward but also earned him awards recognizing his significant contributions to the longevity field.
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Prof Brian Kennedy
Prof Kennedy is a Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Physiology at National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, where he is also a Director of Healthy Longevity Translational Research Programme and Asian Centre for Reproductive Longevity and Equality. His research group primarily focuses on understanding the biology of ageing and translating research discoveries into new ways of delaying, detecting, preventing and treating human ageing and associated diseases. As Director at Centre for Healthy Longevity, National University Health System, he connects basic research to translational and clinical studies, and collaborates widely with the government, private, and non-profit sectors.