George Han, a PhD student at CIMR, discovered his passion for ageing and neurodegeneration research through senior home volunteering. He has since studied nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery, Alzheimer’s disease and progeria syndromes and now focuses on a rare metabolic neurological disease.

Maja’s interest in longevity started when she was undertaking a research project on stem cell therapies in multiple sclerosis at the University of Edinburgh. It was then that she explored the link between premature ageing processes and MS, and realised that ageing processes affect most, if not all diseases. Her main interest now lies at the intersection of neurodegeneration and ageing, and she is currently researching autophagy pathways in neurodegeneration as part of her PhD at Babraham Institute.

Baptiste's interest in longevity began at the age of 14. During high school, he pursued his passion for biology as an autodidact. He later completed a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences at the University of Marseille, followed by a Master's degree at the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay. Now a PhD student at the Babraham Institute, Baptiste focuses on understanding how replication changes in aging cells.

Petya is an MPhil student in Bioscience Enterprise at the Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. She comes from a tech and entrepreneurial background and has 12+ years of experience in scaling businesses, strategy, negotiations and product innovation. She's passionate about OneHealth and longevity and has been into biohacking for 5 years. She co-founded a science-driven skin clinic and is bridging gaps between the laboratory and the market. She's focused on strategic partnerships within the field to create synergies.

Jack Welland is the Michael House PhD Scholar at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (St John’s College). He utilizes both computational and structural techniques to study how enzymes interface with membranes to conduct their function. Jack's interest in ageing research is focused on how increasing healthspan may prove the most effective strategy to tackling age-related neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Alzheimer’s).

Hania Luniak is a biomedical engineer and stem cell biologist passionate about understanding neurodegeneration and brain aging. She’s currently doing her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she’s diving into how RNA oxidation contributes to diseases like ALS. Using 2D and 3D stem-cell models, Hania is exploring how spinal motor neurons are affected by oxidative stress and disrupted proteostasis.

Wen Kin Lim is a Harding PhD Scholar at the Babraham Institute and University of Cambridge (St Catharine’s College). He became interested in longevity research during his undergraduate thesis research on signalling in stem cell regulation and ageing. He is particularly interested in how tackling ageing can be the most powerful way to achieve preventive medicine and improve modern healthcare. Wen’s current PhD research is on the mechanisms of ageing, specifically the loss of protein homeostasis and RNA oxidative damage that accumulates with age.