Lynne Cox (1984)

"Orielensis Jim Mellon Gifts £1 Million to Aid Research into Improving Future Health Resilience."

Lynne Cox (1984) works on the basic biology of ageing, trying to understand what drives ageing, and developing new
interventions that can improve health and resilience in later life.

In this talk, Lynne will outline how studying processes of basic biology can inform on developing interventions that improve health and resilience. She will also discuss what is meant by biological ageing, what factors contribute to ageing and the diseases of ageing, and what we can be done about it. In particular, Lynne will cover how research into ageing of the body’s cells (known as cell senescence) is highlighting different ways to tackle age-related diseases.

As we learn to live in a world with COVID-19, it is crucial to understand why older people are at very high risk, Lynne will briefly cover the process of immunosenescence (failure of the immune system with age) and what interventions might
already be available to help. She will round up by summarising future promising directions in the new field of geroscience.