Reporting on the Systems Aging Gordon Research Conference

Alex Zhavoronkov, who these days is as much interested in accelerating progress in cryonics as in translational research for the treatment of aging, here reports on his time at the recent Systems Aging Gordon Research Conference, one of a growing number of new conference series serving academic efforts make headway in the matter of treating aging as a medical condition. As a general rule, more successful conference series tend to indicate a larger and more successful field: more researchers, more funding, more attention from the world at large. The proliferation of conferences focused on aging is a good sign. With Vadim Gladyshev serving as chairman and Steve Horvath as vice-chairman, the conference set the stage for the field, paving the way for the development of interventions to delay and reverse aging. Both are world-renowned researchers, and spoke and led the discussions at the conference. The conference was attended by a number of prominent researchers from renowned institutions; such as Cynthia Kenyon of Calico Labs, who discussed about interventions that slow aging, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen of the University of Copenhagen, who talked about modulating DNA repair for healthy aging, and Emma Teeling of the University College Dublin, who spoke about the genetic basis of exceptional longevity of bats. Day one was about "Delaying Age," and was led by Steve Horvath as the discussion leader. On this day, Cynthia Kenyon, Richard Miller of the University of Mich...
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