Born Skipton, West Yorkshire. Educated at Ermysted’s Grammar School (Awarded Mechanics Institute Prize for Biology), Bristol University (B.Sc Microbiology), University of Birmingham (PhD Lymphopoesis), Cranfield University (DSc, Age Associated Changes in Immunity and the role of the Thymus). Member of the British Society for Immunology (1979–), member of the British Transplantation Society (1985,) Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2007–), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edin) (2012–). Professor of Translational Medicine at Cranfield University. Research interests include ageing of the immune system, drug development for chronic inflammatory diseases, remote monitoring of infection in older individuals. Visiting Professor at the Open University. Member of the Board of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Postgraduate Medical School and an External Examiner at HKUSpace. Professor Richard George Arthur Faragher (1967–) Elected to membership of the society (1994), executive committee member (1997, 2008), honorary treasurer (1997–2003), chairman (2008–2013). Born London, United Kingdom, grew up in Reading, Berkshire and Andover, Hampshire. Educated at Harrow Way Comprehensive School, Andover (House Captain and extra for the 1981 BBC television series Codename Icarus), Cricklade (now Andover) college (‘A’ Level studies), Imperial College of Science and Technology (B.Sc. Biochemistry), University of Sussex (D.Phil. The cell kinetics of Werner’s syndrome). Royal Pharmaceutical Society Conference Science Medal for outstanding scientific achievement (2002), Help the Aged Living Legend Award for services to ageing research and the needs of older people (2005, first scientist to be a recipient), Paul F Glenn Award for research in biological mechanisms of ageing (2010, first British recipient). Professor of Biogerontology at the University of Brighton. Research interests: progeroid syndromes, resveratrol analogues (‘resveralogues’) and the phenotype of senescent cells. Trustee Age UK Brighton and Hove, Executive Director American Aging Association, member BBSRC Bioscience for Health strategy panel. International adjunct professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Cohen Medalist (2016). Professor Leonard Hayflick (1928–) Professor Robin Holliday (1932–2014) Professor David Glyn Kipling (1964–) Elected to membership of the society (1996), executive committee member (1997–2003, 2012–present), honorary general secretary (1997–2003). Born Sheffield, United Kingdom. Educated at Thornbridge Comprehensive School (first applicant to Oxbridge from the School), Sheffield. Churchill College, Cambridge University (CEGB Entrance Scholar, BA Natural Sciences, Frank Smart Prize for Zoology). Lincoln College Oxford (D.Phil. yeast DNA replication, rowed bow for College First VIII). Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research, Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine Fellowship (1995–2000). Academic Coordinator of BBSRC SAGE and ERA special initiatives on