Centre for Healthy Ageing
Healthy ageing is the idea of prolonging wellbeing by developing and maintaining your abilities throughout our life course. A person’s wellbeing incorporates physical, mental and social health.
About the centre
The Healthy Ageing Centre focuses on understanding what drives cellular ageing and how this biological process causes disease. We use this information to treat and aid the prevention of diseases of ageing including sarcopenia, frailty, dementia, liver failure to promote health ageing.
Centre Head
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Associate Professor Andy Philp
Head, Centre for Healthy Ageing
Laboratories
The laboratories operating within this centre are:
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Gamble
The Vascular Biology program seeks to understand the ageing process on the function of blood vessels and the impact on the development of disease. Ultimately the work may help us “age better”.
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Philp
Musculoskeletal conditions have been estimated to affect 1.71 billion people globally.
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Seth
The Alcoholic Liver Disease research program includes studies on genetics of alcoholic cirrhosis and molecular mechanisms underlying liver disease. By identifying biomarkers for alcohol use and liver injury, we utilise transcriptomics, lipid and miRNA profiling to find treatment targets and pathways.
Get in touch
To get in touch and for all general enquiries relating to our work, please contact Associate Professor Andy Philp.
Student opportunities
Postdoctoral and postgraduate students can work alongside world-leading medical researchers, with state-of-the-art facilities, in direct collaboration with the University of Sydney, UTS and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. There are opportunities to research with biology of ageing researchers, Bioinformatics and ADL Post Doctorates.
