Dr. Taranjit Singh Rai is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine, Ulster University. He received a PhD from PGIMER, Chandigarh, India and Post Doctoral training at the Beatson Institute of Cancer Research, Glasgow, and has been awarded for outstanding research and teaching such as young scientist, CATE UK HE and UWS STARS Award. He has published more than 30 collaborative papers in high impact peer-reviewed journals (h-index of 23 and >3000 citations). His teaching disciplines include Cell/Molecular biology, Epigenetics, Ageing, Chromatin, Bio-entrepreneurship, and he is interested in the role of cellular senescence in health and disease.