Aging 2008: the Disease, the Cure, the Implications

I’ve written here a few times about longevity and aging research in my Friday Favorites.

100,000 people die each day due to aging. So many people for so many years have accepted aging as an inevitable part of life that they fail to see it as a medical condition. If fact, many other species live longer than humans. There is no reason why we should accept our short lives as something we just have to live with and can’t change.

This June 27th at UCLA’s Royce Hall is the Aging 2008 conference - ‘Aging: The Disease, The Cure, The Implications’ which is hosted by the Methuselah Foundation. It is free with advance registration required.

The goal of the Methuselah Foundation is to dramatically extend healthy human life within the next few decades.

The agenda is as follows:

4:00 PM Welcome Reception & Registration Opens
5:00 PM Welcome and opening remarks
5:05 PM Speeches

* William Haseltine, Haseltine Global Health
* Bruce Ames, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute
* Michael West, Biotime Inc.
* Daniel Perry, Alliance for Aging Research
* Gregory Stock, UCLA and Signum Biosciences
* Steve Burrill, Burrill and Company
* Bernard Siegel, Genetics Policy Institute
* Aubrey de Grey, Methuselah Foundation

Aging 2008 also serves as the free opening session for the technically focused Understanding Aging Conference, which will run at UCLA on June 28th and 29th.

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1. Marijke (1 comments.) said,
   
   

   on May 22nd, 2008 at 7:41 am

   Very interesting blog. I can’t recall coming across it before so I’ll definitely be back.

   Thanks for providing all this information.

2. Janusz Czoch (1 comments.) said,
   
   

   on June 11th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

   Molecular biology is now expanding at an explosive pace. Fact. What would happen if we were to push the rate of progress just that little bit more?

   Meet the real life alliance of engineers, scientists, philanthropists and volunteer fund raisers all of whom have but one thing in common. None of whom want to have an appointment with the grave or the furnace several decades from as of today.

   De Grey is a man with a mission. Consider this improbable scenario: a hitherto unknown Cambridge scientist realises he holds the key to saving the lives of countless millions. What is he to do? In that situation what would YOU do? This is not some improbable science-fiction scenario. This is here and right now.

   I for one do not want to die.

   The Race is ON
   “What’s likely to happen within the next 20 to 25, 30 years, we will develop technology that will buy a bit of time. We will develop rejuvenation technology that can be applied to people that are already middle-age and keep them middle-age, or less so to speak, for another 20 or 30 years. During that 20 or 30 years, the technology will be further advanced to give them another, let’s say, 15 years, and so on.”

   -Aubrey de Grey: Chief Science Officer. Methuselah Foundation
   Let’s Roll!

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