Longevity Nation
Bar-Ilan University, Nanotechnology Building 206,
Ramat Gan (Tel Aviv district), Israel
28-31 October 2024 (Mon-Thu)
Focus: Tripartite American British Israeli Longevity Initiative (TABILI)
October 28
8.00-9.00 – Gathering and Registration
Session 1. 9.00-10.20. Opening Session. Enhancing the longevity ecosystem for Israel and international collaboration
Dr. Ilia Stambler (Chairman Vetek Association. Bar Ilan University)
Prof. Richard Faragher (AFAR Board of Directors, Co-Ordinator UK MRC-BBSRC Ageing Networks)
MK Gila Gamliel (Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology)
Prof. Amnon Albeck (Rector, Bar-Ilan University)
Prof. Noah Efron (Chairman, Science, Technology and Society. Bar-Ilan University)
Stephanie Lederman (Executive Director, American Federation for Aging Research – AFAR)
Hanan Tal, Alex Friedman (Disabled, not Half a Human Being Association; Vetek (Seniority) Association – the Movement for Longevity and Quality of Life)
British, American and Israeli government bodies
Session Objective: The need to global collaboration on research, translation and education to address the challenges and opportunities around population ageing. Israel’s potential as an important contributor to this international effort.
10.20-11.00. Break
Session 2. 11.00-12.20. Keynotes. Why Now? Breakthroughs in the science of ageing
11.00-11.30: Prof. Nir Barzilai (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) How to die young at a very old age?
11.30-12.00: Prof. S. Jay Olshansky (School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago) Implausibility of radical life extension in humans in the 21st century.
12.00-12.30: Prof. Stathis Gonos (National Hellenic Research Foundation) Development of personalized anti-ageing treatments.
12.30-14.00 LUNCH
Session 3. 14.00-16.00. What can we hope for? Intervening in fundamental ageing mechanisms
14.00-14.20: Prof. Valery Krizhanovsky (Weizmann Institute of Science) Senescent cells: where to find them and how to deal with them.
14.20:14.40: Prof. Haim Cohen (Bar-Ilan University) Maintaining healthy longevity by SIRT6.
14.40-15.00: Dr. Natalie Yivgi-Ohana (Minovia Therapeutics) Revitalizing the immune system with young mitochondria.
15.00-15.20: Prof. Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute of Science) A circuit approach to understand aging.
15.20-15.40: Dr. Omri Amirav-Drori , Dr. Ohad Gafni (Renewal Bio) Deep bio solutions for longevity.
15.40-16.00: Prof. Shai Efrati (Shamir Medical Center) The use of the hyperoxic-hypoxic paradox in regenerative medicine.
16.00-16.20: Prof. Enrico Mairov, Prof. Luciano Bassani, Dr. Vittorio Pesato, Dr. Flavio Cabitza (Comunita Mondiale della Longevita) Sardinia: Longevity determinants of a blue zone (online) .
16.20-16.40: Prof. Susan Greenfield (Neuro-Bio, UK): A novel mechanism underlying aging (online).
16.40-17.00: Prof. Björn Schumacher (University of Cologne) Genome stability in aging: Mechanisms and interventions (online).
October 29
Session 1. 9.00-10.20. Pathways and crossroads to healthy longevity. The promises and challenges of geroscience.
9.20-9.40: Prof. Lynne Cox (University of Oxford) Age-related bone fragility in type 1 diabetes – the role of bone cell senescence (online).
9.40-10.00: Prof. Myriam Grunewald (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Undoing loss of microvascular homeostasis promotes healthy aging.
10.00-10.20: Dr. Maria Cavinato (Innsbruck University) Senescence, Skin, and Longevity: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Avenues (online).
10.20-11.00. Break
Session 2. 11.00-12.20. Aging Clocks, Biomarkers and Clinical evaluation criteria
11.00-11.20: Prof. Steve Horvath (Altos Labs, UCLA) DNA methylation studies of mammalian lifespan (online).
11.20-11.40: Guy Leitersdorf , Dor Daniel (Longevity AI) AI-Powered longitudinal longevity studies
11.40-12.00: Shimon Meshi (Centarix) Measuring aging in the community.
12.00-12.20: Prof. Gil Atzmon (Haifa University) Nontraditional approaches for interpreting the epigenetics of longevity as a tool for a long and healthy lifespan.
12.20-14.00 LUNCH
Session 3. 14.00-17.00. Into the clinic: What can be offered now and in the near future?
14.00–14.20: Prof. Evelyne Bischof (The Healthy Longevity Medicine Society and Sheba Longevity Center) Healthy Longevity Medicine – optimizing the biological age of the individual performance, clinical experience.
14.20-14.40: Dr. Marios Kyriazis (National Gerontology Centre Cyprus) Intermittent fasting, hormesis, and adaptive responses.
14:40-15.00: Dr. Mario Krause (European Society of Preventive, Regenerative and Anti-Aging Medicine – ESAAM) If you are looking for longevity – don’t die from cancer.
15.20-15.40: Yaky Yanay (Pluri) From birth to renewal: The therapeutic potential of placental cells to promote healthy longevity.
15.40-16.00: Dr. Arseniy Trukhanov (European Society of Preventive, Regenerative and Anti-Aging Medicine – ESAAM) The handbook on healthy longevity: The road map.
16.00-16.20: Prof. Robert Chunhua Zhao (School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College) Application of MSCs against aging-related diseases (online).
16.20-16.40: Prof. Kunlin Jin (University of North Texas Health Science Center and International Society on Aging and Disease – ISOAD) Pericytes: Key Players in the Pathophysiology of Age-Related Brain Diseases (online).
October 30
Session 1. 9.00-10.45. Cooperation in Practice. BIRAX Healthy Ageing – Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership on Healthy Ageing. Part 1.
Prof. Avi Domb (Chief Scientist. Israel Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology)
10.45-11.00. Break
Session 2. 11.00-13.00. Cooperation in Practice. BIRAX Healthy Ageing – Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership on Healthy Ageing. Part 2.
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
Session 3. 14.00-14.50. Cooperation in Practice. BIRAX Healthy Ageing – Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership on Healthy Ageing. Part 3.
14.50-15.00. Break
Session 3. 15.00-17.00. Ends and Means: Investing in healthy longevity. The way ahead. Visions of the Future
15.00-15.20: Dmitry Kaminskiy (Deep Knowledge Group) Longevity industry framework and the financial commoditization of longevity industrialization.
15.20-15.40: Dr. Natasha Vita-More (NVM Productions) The Art of Healthy Longevity: Commit don’t quit!
15.40-16.00: Dr. José Luis Cordeiro (The Millennium Project) The nascent Longevity movement in Latin America and the Middle East.
16.00-16.20: Fiona Miller (quadraScope Venture Fund) Following the data. Update on the longevity science and market (online).
16.20-16.40: Dr. Aubrey de Grey (LEV Foundation) Taking rejuvenation research to escape velocity (online).
October 31
Session 1. 9.00.-10.00. Longevity Medicine
9.00-9.20. Prof. Vittorio Calabrese (University of Catania, ESAAM) Hormetic Neuronutrition in Healthy Aging and Longevity: From Bench To Clinics.
9.20-9.40. Prof. Anzhela B. Kozhokaru (A. I. Burnazyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center) Sleep and Longevity (online).
9.40-10.00. Prof. Sivan Henis-Korenblit (Bar-Ilan University) Using model organisms to discover genetic strategies towards improving healthspan in humans.
10.00-10.30. Break
Session 2. 10.30-11.30. Longevity Industry
10.30-10.45. Prof. Shai Shen-Orr (Faculty of Medicine, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology; CytoReason) Exposed to Life – Getting at the Immunological Clock.
10.45-11.00. Dr. Ira Sobel (Fintech for Longevity Academy) Longevity and open data – leveraging aging data to longevity finance.
11.00-11.15: Dr. Yael Benvenisti (Insurtech Israel) Technologies for aging well.
11.15-11.30. Ishay Attar (BioChange) A tissue scaffold to rebuild damaged tissues and organs.
11.30-12.00. Break
Session 3. 12.00-13.00. Longevity Education. Awarding the Longevity Aspiration Prize
Final Session 4. 13.00-13.30. Resolution and Closing remarks
13.30-15.00. LUNCH. POST-CONFERENCE RECEPTION