Brian Kennedy is the former President and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Ageing from July 2010, till October 2016. Kennedy has published over 80 manuscripts in prestigious journals including Cell, Nature, Science, Genes & Development, and PNAS. Kennedy has served on the NIH Cellular Mechanisms of Aging and Development study section since 2006, acting as Committee Chair since 2010. He has also served on the grant review committee for America n Federation for Aging Research Grants since 2006. He has acted as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Gerontology: Biological Science since 2006 and Cell Cycle since 2010. Currently, he is co-Editor-in-Chief of Aging Cell. Continuing his passion for longevity, he is currently the Director of the Centre for Healthy Ageing at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at National University Singapore. He also serves as a Distinguished Professor at Biochemistry and Physiology at National University Singapore. The YLL Centre seeks to demonstrate that ageing interventions can be successfully employed in humans to extend health span, the disease-free and highly functional period of life. Other goals include running preclinical research to better understand the biology of ageing and community-based approached to improve health quality with ageing in Singapore. He has adjunct appointments at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at USC and the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington, where he served as a faculty member from 2001 to 2010.