Professor Andy Philp is Head of the Centre for Healthy Ageing at the Centenary Institute and leads the healthy ageing research at the University of Technology Sydney. Andy is an internationally recognised expert in studying mitochondrial metabolism, with particular focus on skeletal muscle wasting disorders such as ageing, muscular dystrophy and mitochondrial myopathy. His group is currently focused on discovering novel pharmaceutical and nutraceutical approaches to target mitochondrial quality control in skeletal muscle, with the goal to prevent muscle loss following ageing, inactivity and infection.