HEALTHY AGING & LONGEVITY

ONLINE CONFERENCE & NETWORKING

30 באוקטובר 2024, 8:00

a collaboration between

Healthy Longevity Research Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Potocsnak Longevity Institute, Northwestern University, USA

Recognizing the need to share information and resources to understand better how humans age and what scientists can do to impact people’s health spans worldwide positively, Northwestern University (NU), Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the University of Toronto (UT) invite their faculty researchers to participate in an online conference, Research Collaborations in Healthy Aging & Longevity, October 30 and 31, 2024.

The purpose of this conference and virtual meeting space is for participants to:

learn about each university’s healthy aging/longevity institutes, programs and research,
identify potential collaborators at the partner institutions, and
consider jointly designing research projects with high potential to receive external funding and make major contributions to the study of aging and/or longevity. (Conference participants —presenters and non-presenters— will be eligible to apply for pilot joint project/seed grant funding after the conference.)

All NU, TAU and UT faculty are invited and encouraged to attend, and to propose a short (7-8 minute) presentation on their current research. Up to 10-15 faculty members from each institution will be selected to present at the October conference, with additional presentations expected to be selected and scheduled through December 2024.

Tentative Conference Schedule

October 30 and 31, 2024

8 am – 11 am (Chicago)

9 am – 12 pm (Toronto)

4 – 7 pm (Tel Aviv)

Innovative proposals with a clear intention to advance progress are welcome from all fields, including (but not limited to):

Neurodegenerative disease (early biomarker, mechanism, prevention)
Mitochondrial diseases in aging
Aging and senses
Cardiovascular disease and cardiometabolic and aging epidemiology
Sleep and aging
Mechanisms for cognitive decline
Socio-legal aspects of aging
Social aspects of aging
Housing environments & care models
Place and interventions
Complex Care
Care and case management
Perceptions of health and illness
Aging and the end of life: Philosophical and Cultural Aspects
Aging and Ethical Questions
Psychoanalytic Aspects of Aging
Policies for elderly
Technology to support healthy aging
Human motor control
Occupational/healthcare management
Nanoscience and Aging (Proteoforms, Wearables, Precision Therapeutics)
Model Systems for Studying Aging (Cells, worms, flies, mice, humans)
Hallmarks of Aging (Proteostasis, Transcriptomics, Senescence, Nutrient Sensing)
Aging In Humans (Clocks, AI-based Tools)
Organ-specific measures of age
Population science (SDOH, culture, diet, climate)
Human Longevity Laboratory
Epigenetics and omics in aging
Clinical trials
Andropause /Menopause- how to and when to intervene?
Microbiome
interdisciplinary applied perspective: designing spaces for individuals with memory-related neurodivergence