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Ira is an associate professor and laboratory head at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford. She has a broad range of interests in geroscience, human physiology and cell biology. Her research focuses on ‘normal’ human brain ageing as well as the processes that fail in the brain during neurodegeneration. Since 2021, Ira also

Jon is group leader and head of knowledge exchange and commercialisation at the Babraham Institute. His work studies the mechanisms by which cells adapt to new environments, and the connections between adaptation and ageing.