Cambridge). European patent filed as part of PhD work. Post-doctoral Research fellow at Washington University Medical School, St Louis, MO and the University of Bristol. Currently Professor of Stem Cell Biology at Liverpool John Moores University. Member of the British Endocrine Society (1989–). Executive member of the Mercia Stem cell Alliance (2011–). Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2013–). Funding from AICR, NDA prep network, SPARC, Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Training Programme, FP7. Research interests: Regulators of skeletal muscle maintenance in health and disease and across the ages. Enabling healthspan. Professor Sydney Shall (1932–) Cohen Medallist (2006), honorary member (2011). Born in xx, South Africa? Educated University of the Witwatersrand (Medicine), studied for a master's degree in Science under the supervision of Sydney Brenner. King’s College London (PhD). Volunteer in the ANC Defiance Campaign against Unjust Laws (1952) and arrested alongside Nelson Mandela. Seminal contributions to gerontology include the first demonstration that the nuclear enzyme system poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) is involved in the cellular response to DNA damage, the invention of novel inhibitors of PARP (now used globally) and ground breaking studies in the kinetics of senescence in primary human and rodent fibroblasts. Emeritus Professor, King's College London. Professor Raymond Tallis, Cohen Medallist (2007) Dr David Weinkove (1973–). Elected to the society (2005–). executive committee member (2014–). Born Reading, Berkshire, UK. Grew up in Gravesend, Kent, UK. Educated at Gravesend Grammar School, Clare College, Cambridge University (1994 BA Hons Natural Sciences -Biochemistry). PhD at University College London MRC-LMCB, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and Department of Biochemistry (PhD on how the signaling molecule PI-3 kinase regulates growth in Drosophila with Prof Mike Waterfield and Dr Sally Leevers 1999). Awarded Long Term Human Frontiers Science Program Fellowship for postdoctoral research in C. elegans with Prof Ronald Plasterk at the Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, NL (1999–2001) followed by research with Dr Nullin Divecha (2001–04) at the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Prof David Gems at University College London (2004–08). Awarded short term fellowship from HFSP to work with Prof Erik Jorgensen at University of Utah (2004). Lecturer at Durham University since 2008. Research interests include how bacteria influence ageing using the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans and its interaction with Escherichia coli as a model. Dr Cathy Slack (1976- ). Executive committee member (2017- ). Born in Limavady, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Educated at Berkhamsted School for Girls (Hertfordshire), University of Southampton (BSc Biological Sciences),