Metabesity 2020 is excited to welcome the following confirmed speakers.
Speakers confirmed as of 11 October 2020. Information on this page is subject to change.
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Dale Abel, MD, DPhil
Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the the University of Iowa, USA Dr. E. Dale Abel is the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and Director of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center at the Carver College of Medicine of the University of Iowa where he holds the John B. Stokes III Chair in Diabetes Research and the François M. Abboud Chair in Internal Medicine... Read Dr. Abel's Full Biography |
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Steve Austad, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Dr. Austad is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham as well as Senior Scientific Director of the American Federation for Aging Research. He has previously held faculty positions at Harvard University, the University of Idaho, and the University of Texas Health Science Center... Read Dr. Austad's Full Biography |
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Nir Barzilai, MD
Director of Institute for Aging Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA Dr. Nir Barzilai is a chaired Professor of Medicine and Genetics and Director of the Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Biology of Aging, the biggest center in the world to study the biology of aging. He is the recipient of an NIH Merit Award aiming to extend the healthy life span in rodents by biological interventions... Read Dr. Barzilai's Full Biography |
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Kate Batz
Managing Partner of Longevity.Capital, USA Kate Batz is Managing Partner of Longevity.Capital, a specialized investment fund focused on the longevity industry. She is also Director of Strategy and Business Development at Deep Knowledge Ventures Group, comprising of Deep Knowledge Ventures, Aging Analytics Agency, and Deep Knowledge Analytics. Read Ms. Batz' Full Biography |
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Dan Belsky, PhD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, USA Dr. Belsky is currently an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. He is an epidemiologist working at the intersection of genetics, the social and behavioral sciences, and public health. His work brings together discoveries from the cutting edge of genome science with longitudinal data... Read Dr. Belsky's Full Biography |
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Adriane Berg
Executive Director of The Kitalys Institute, USA Adriane Berg is the Executive Director of The Kitalys Institute, a non-profit organization devoted to healthy and equitable longevity. The Kitalys Institute along with Kinexum, is the organizer of the Targeting Metabesity2020 Conference. Ms. Berg is a unique voice in the world of aging, bringing the public together with professionals... Read Ms. Berg's Full Biography |
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Stuart Calimport, PhD, MSc, DIC, MA, MPhil
Honorary Fellow of the University of Liverpool Department of Musculoskeletal Biology II, Collaboration for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Innovation Fellow at University College London Dr. Calimport is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Liverpool, Department of Musculoskeletal Biology II and a Collaboration for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Innovation Fellow at UCL. Dr. Calimport’s primary research interests are understanding the fundamental biology of aging and aging-related diseases... Read Dr. Climport's Full Biography |
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Joe Cook, Jr.
Executive Chairman and President of NuSirt Biopharma; former Chairman and CEO of Amylin, USA Joe Cook currently serves as Executive Chairman and President of NuSirt Biopharma, a biopharma company focused on developing products that combine the company’s patented technologies with currently marketed and well-defined pharmaceutical products, with a focus on obesity and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis... Read Mr. Cook's Full Biography |
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Ralph DeFronzo, MD
Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, USA Dr. Ralph DeFronzo is the Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Diabetes Division at the University of Texas Health Science Center and the Deputy Director of the Texas Diabetes Institute, San Antonio, Texas. Read Dr. DeFronzo's Full Biography |
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Aubrey de Grey, PhD
Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation, USA Dr. de Grey is the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation, an organization that researches a diverse range of regenerative medical therapies aimed at the periodical repair of all age-related damage to human tissue in patients. He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal, Rejuvenation Research... Read Dr. de Grey's Full Biography |
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Laura Deming
Founder and Managing Partner of The Longevity Fund, USA Laura Deming is a venture capitalist and anti-aging pioneer. Her work focuses on life extension and using biological research to reduce or reverse the effects of aging. After homeschooling in New Zealand, Laura moved to San Francisco at just twelve years old to join Cynthia Kenyon’s lab at the University of California... Read Ms. Deming's Full Biography |
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David Ewing Duncan
Life Science Visionary, Author of Talking to Robots: Tales from our Human-Robot Futures David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning journalist in print, television, and radio; the best-selling author of ten books published in 21 languages; and an entrepreneur. His most recent book is Talking to Robots: Tales from our Human-Robot Futures (Dutton). David recently wrote a series on COVID-19 for Vanity Fair, which has... Read Mr. Duncan's Full Biography |
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Ken Dychtwald, PhD
CEO of Age Wave, USA Dr. Dychtwald is a psychologist, gerontologist, and best-selling author of 17 books on aging-related issues, who over the past 40+ years has emerged as one of North America’s foremost visionary and original thinkers regarding the lifestyle, marketing, health care, economic and workforce implications of the age wave... Read Dr. Dychtwald's Full Biography |
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Victor Dzau, MD
President of the National Academy of Medicine and Vice Chair of the National Research Council, USA Dr. Dzau is the President of the National Academy of Medicine as well as Vice Chair of the National Research Council. He is Chancellor Emeritus and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine at Duke University and the past President and CEO of the Duke University Health System. Previously, Dr. Dzau was the Hersey Professor... Read Dr. Dzau's Full Biography |
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Steven Engle
CEO of Cohbar, Inc., USA Steven Engle is the CEO of CohBar, a clinical stage biotechnology company developing mitochondria-based therapeutics to treat chronic diseases and extend healthy lifespan. Previously, Mr. Engle served as CEO of Averigon, an advisory firm to the life science industry, and as Chairman and CEO of XOMA and La Jolla... Read Mr. Engle's Full Biography |
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Greg Fahy, PhD
Co-Founder and CSO of Intervene Immune, USA Dr. Fahy is Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at Twenty-First Century Medicine, Inc and Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Intervene Immune, a company developing clinical methods to reverse immune system aging. Dr. Fahy is the world's foremost expert in organ cryopreservation by vitrification... Read Dr. Fahy's Full Biography |
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Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD
Scientific Director at National Institute of Aging, Italy Dr. Ferrucci is a geriatrician and an epidemiologist who conducts research on the causal pathways leading to progressive physical and cognitive decline in older persons. In September 2002, he became the Chief of the Longitudinal Studies Section at NIA and the Director of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging... Read Dr. Ferrucci's Full Biography |
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Francesca Fieni, PharmD, PhD
Founder and Chief Science Officer of Pano Therapeutics Dr. Francesca Fieni is the founder and CSO of Pano Therapeutics, a platform biotech company she spun out of UCSF focused on clinical development of drugs targeting mitochondrial ion channels to address complex diseases. She has authored publications related to a variety of ion channels and is now focused on... Read Dr. Fieni's Full Biography |
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Lord Geoffrey Filkin, CBE
Chair of APPG for Longevity, Strategic Advisory Group, UK Lord Filkin currently serves as the Chair of APPG for Longevity, Strategic Advisory Group. He has worked in various sectors and in many roles, as a CEO, a Government Minister, an adviser to businesses, an experienced chair, and a social entrepreneur... Read Lord Filkin's Full Biography |
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Alexander Fleming, MD – Co-Chair
Founder and Executive Chairman, Kinexum; CMO, Tolerion, USA Dr. Alexander Fleming is Founder and Executive Chairman of Kinexum. He is also Chief Medical Officer of Tolerion, a biotechnology company developing disease-modifying treatments for type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases. At the US Food and Drug Administration from 1986 to 1998... Read Dr. Fleming's Full Biography |
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Paulo Fontoura, MD, PhD
Global Head and SVP, Neuroscience and Rare Diseases Clinical Development at Roche, Switzerland Dr. Fontoura joined Roche in 2008 as a Translational Medicine Leader and became Head of Translational Medicine in 2010, responsible for the early development stages of new medicines for neurological and psychiatric diseases, including Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer disease, depression, schizophrenia, autism... Read Dr. Fontoura's Full Biography |
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Judy Foreman
Author and Journalist, USA Ms. Foreman is the author of numerous books, including “A Nation in Pain” (2014), “The Global Pain Crisis” (2017), and “Exercise is Medicine,” (2020), all published by Oxford University Press. She was a staff writer at The Boston Globe for 22 years, including serving many years as the paper’s health columnist... Read Ms. Foreman's Full Biography |
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David Fox, JD
Partner at Hogan Lovells, USA Mr. Fox currently serves as a Partner at Hogan Lovells, an American-British law firm that specializes in government regulatory, litigation, commercial litigation and arbitration, corporate, finance, and intellectual property. He advises management teams, from start-ups to the largest global pharmaceutical and... Read Mr. Fox's Full Biography |
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Ben Gibson
Co-founder & CEO of Pano Therapeutics, Inc., USA Ben is a recovering investment banker turned entrepreneur focused on addressing the biggest problems in human health, in terms of individual health and resilience as well as global health. This ambition led Ben to a focus on mitochondrial biology as the central mediator of adaptive stress response (allostasis)... Read Mr. Gibson's Full Biography |
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Vadim Gladyshev, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Director, Center for Redox Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA Dr. Vadim Gladyshev is a Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Member at the Broad Institute. He seeks to understand the nature of aging and define principles of lifespan control. Dr. Gladyshev's lab applies high-throughput and computational approaches... Read Dr. Gladyshev's Full Biography |
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Dana Goldman, PhD
Interim Dean at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, USA Dr. Goldman is the Interim Dean at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, as well as the Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair and Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy, Public Policy, and Economics at the University of Southern California. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and research associate... Read Dr. Goldman's Full Biography |
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Stephen Gough, MD, FRCP
Senior Vice President and Global Chief Medical Officer, Novo Nordisk A/S, Denmark Dr. Stephen Gough joined Novo Nordisk A/S, as Senior Principal Clinical Scientist in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2015 in the Chief Medical Office, to provide advice and clinical guidance on the development of new molecules and drugs, from early concept through phase III and beyond, for the treatment of diabetes and obesity... Read Dr. Gough's Full Biography |
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Brian Harvey, MD, PhD
EVP of Global Liver Institute, USA Dr. Brian Harvey is a physician and biochemist with academic research, clinical practice, US FDA regulatory, bio-pharmaceutical industry, and non-profit experience. He is currently the Executive Vice President, Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, at the non-profit Global Liver Institute based in Washington, DC... Read Dr. Harvey's Full Biography |
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Alyssa Hasty, PhD
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor in Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, and Associate Dean for Faculty of the Basic Sciences in the School of Medicine at Vanderbilt University, USA Dr. Hasty received her PhD from Vanderbilt University in 1999 and subsequently completed 2-years of postdoctoral work at Tokyo University. She returned to Vanderbilt and completed another brief postdoctoral fellowship. In 2003, she was hired into a tenure track position in the department of Molecular Physiology and... Read Dr. Hasty's Full Biography |
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Professor Philip Home
University of Newcastle, UK Professor Philip Home trained in medicine at Oxford University and Guy's Hospital, coming under the influence of Harry Keen, and thus gravitating into diabetes research. Continuing this research career in Newcastle upon Tyne, initially under the guidance of George Alberti, he has published over 460 papers, books and reviews... Read Professor Home's Full Biography |
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Steve Horvath, PhD, ScD
Professor, Human Genetics and Biostatistics at UCLA Brain Research Institute, USA Dr. Horvath is a Professor of Human Genetics and Biostatistics at University of California, Los Angeles. There, he is an aging researcher and bioinformatician whose work lies at the intersection of epidemiology, chronic diseases, epigenetics, genetics, and systems biology... Read Dr. Horvath's Full Biography |
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Amy Jeffs
Vice President of Status Solutions, USA Ms. Jeffs currently serves as Vice President of Status Solutions and has held various positions within the mission-based organization for the past 13 years. Her primary duties include assisting Status Solutions' Founder and President with developing and implementing the company's overall go-to-market strategy... Read Ms. Jeffs' Full Biography |
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Matt Kaeberlein, PhD
Director of the Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute, University of Washington, USA Dr. Matt Kaeberlein is a Professor of Pathology, Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences, and Adjunct Professor of Oral Health Sciences at the University of Washington. His research interests are focused on basic mechanisms of aging in order to facilitate translational interventions that promote healthspan and improve quality of life... Read Dr. Kaeberlein's Full Biography |
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Brian Kennedy, PhD
Director of the Centre for Healthy Ageing at the National University Health System, Singapore Dr. Brian Kennedy is internationally recognized for his research in the basic biology of aging and as a visionary committed to translating research discoveries into new ways of delaying, detecting, and preventing human aging and associated diseases... Read Dr. Kennedy's Full Biography |
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Eric Kihlstrom
Partner of Longevity.Capital, UK Eric Kihlstrom is a Partner of Longevity.Capital, a specialized hybrid investment fund for the longevity industry. Eric was recently Strategic Director of Aging Analytics Agency and Head of Industry Collaboration at Longevity International, the Secretariat for the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Longevity... Read Mr. Kihlstrom's Full Biography |
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Daniel Kraft, MD
Physician Scientist and Innovator Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator and is serving as the Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance Task Force. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has chaired the Medicine for Singularity... Read Dr. Kraft's Full Biography |
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Guido Kroemer, MD, PhD
Director of the Metabolomics and Cell Biology platforms of the Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center, France Dr. Kroemer is currently Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris Descartes, Director of the research team "Metabolism, Cancer and Immunity" of the French Medical Research Council (INSERM), Director of the Metabolomics and Cell Biology platforms of the Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center... Read Dr. Kroemer's Full Biography |
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Morgan Levine, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Epidemiology at Yale School of Medicine, USA Dr. Levine is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Yale School of Medicine and a member of both the Yale Combined Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and the Yale Center for Research on Aging. Her work relies on an interdisciplinary approach, integrating theories and methods... Read Dr. Levine's Full Biography |
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Brian Leyland-Jones, MB, BS, PhD, FRACP, FRCPC
Chief Medical Officer and Scientific Advisory Board Member for the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR), USA Dr. Brian Leyland-Jones is the Chief Medical Officer and Scientific Advisory Board Member for the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR). He also serves as the CMO of OTraces and the N OF 1 Mission, and CSO of The Darwin Foundation, collectively devoted to the implementation of prevention and cure... Read Dr. Leyland-Jones' Full Biography |
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Peter Libby, MD
Senior Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, USA Peter Libby, MD, is a cardiovascular specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and holds the Mallinckrodt Professorship of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He served as Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at BWH from 1998 - 2014. His areas of clinical expertise include general and... Read Dr. Libby's Full Biography |
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Daniel Lieberman, PhD
Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences at Harvard University, USA Dr. Lieberman is a paleoanthropologist at Harvard University, where he is the Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. He is best known for his research on the evolution of the human head and the evolution of the human body... Read Dr. Lieberman's Full Biography |
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Jennifer Ligibel, MD
Director, Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA Dr. Jennifer Ligibel is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Ligibel’s research focuses on the impact of lifestyle interventions on cancer-related outcomes in women with breast cancer... Read Dr. Ligibel’s Full Biography |
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Gordon Lithgow, PhD
Principal Investigator and Director of the Buck Institute’s Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Geroscience, USA Dr. Lithgow is the Principal Investigator and Director of the Buck Institute’s Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Geroscience. He is also the Principal Investigator of the Larry L. Hillblom Network on the Chemical Biology of Aging, and the Coordinator of the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging Support Award... Read Dr. Lithgow's Full Biography |
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Frank Longo, MD, PhD
George E. and Lucy Becker Professor in Medicine and Chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford Hospital, USA Dr. Longo received his MD from the University of California, San Diego in 1981 and his PhD in 1983. Following an internship in medicine at New York University, he trained as a resident in neurology at the University of California, San Francisco where he also completed a fellowship in neurobiology. He joined the UCSF faculty and... Read Dr. Longo's Full Biography |
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Polina Mamoshina, PhD
Chief Scientist at Deep Longevity, Ltd, Hong Kong Dr. Mamoshina is a Chief Scientist at Deep Longevity, Ltd, a Hong Kong-based bioinformatics and deep learning company focused on multiple deep biomarkers of aging dubbed “deep aging clocks” to provide a universal multifactorial measure of human biological age. Her primary research interests include artificial intelligence... Read Dr. Mamoshina's Full Biography |
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Joan Mannick, MD
Co-Founder and CMO of resTORbio, USA Dr. Joan Mannick is CMO of resTORbio, a clinical stage biotechnology company that is a spin-out of Novartis and developing medicines that target the biology of aging to treat or prevent aging-related diseases. Prior to joining resTORbio, Dr. Mannick was an Executive Director in the New Indications Discovery Unit... Read Dr. Mannick's Full Bio |
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Susan Mayne, PhD
Director of FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, USA Susan Mayne, PhD, is the Director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In this position, Dr. Mayne leads the Center’s development and implementation of programs and policies related to the composition, quality, safety, and labeling of foods, food and... Read Dr. Mayne's Full Biography |
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Jamie Metzl
Author of Hacking Darwin: Genetic Revolution and the Future of Humanity, USA Jamie Metzl is a technology futurist and geopolitical expert, novelist, entrepreneur, media commentator, and Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council. In February 2019, he was appointed to the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on developing global standards for the governance and oversight of human... Read Mr. Metzl's Full Biography |
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Bruce Miller, MD
Professor of Neurology at University of California, San Francisco, USA Dr. Miller holds the A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professorship in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He directs the busy UCSF dementia center where patients in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond receive comprehensive clinical evaluations. His goal is the delivery of model... Read Dr. Miller's Full Biography |
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Phil Newman
Editor-in-Chief of www.Longevity.Technology and founder of Crowd Longevity, USA Mr. Newman is Editor-in-Chief of www.Longevity.Technology and founder of Crowd Longevity, a digital investment platform for international investors and Longevity start-ups launching in 2020. He has wide experience of technology transfer and the commercialisation of innovations from both private and... Read Mr. Newman's Full Biography |
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Ashish Nimgaonkar, MD
President and CEO of Glyscend Therapeutics, USA Dr. Nimgaonkar is the president and CEO of Glyscend Therapeutics, a venture-backed biopharmaceutical company developing novel orally-delivered compounds that work on targets inside the GI tract to treat a variety of metabolic disorders, including T2D. He also serves as an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins... Read Dr. Nimgaonkar's Full Biography |
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Jay Olshansky, PhD
Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Dr. Olshansky is currently a Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Research Associate at the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Chief Scientist at Lapetus Solutions, Inc. The focus of his research to date... Read Dr. Olshnsky's Full Biography |
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James Peyer, PhD
Founder and CEO of Cambrian BioPharma, USA James Peyer, PhD, was previously the Founder and Managing Partner of Kronos BioVentures, a biotechnology fund investing in breakthrough therapeutics that affect fundamental mechanisms of the natural degeneration we call aging. He created Kronos to explore the potential of our newfound knowledge of what makes us age... Read Dr. Peyer's Full Biography |
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Dennis Purcell
Founder and Senior Advisor, Aisling Capital, USA Dennis Purcell is the Founder of Aisling Capital LLC and currently serves as a Senior Advisor. Previously, he served as the Senior Managing Partner. Prior to Aisling Capital, Mr. Purcell served as Managing Director of the Life Sciences Investment Banking Group at Chase H&Q (formerly Hambrecht & Quist, “H&Q”) for over... Read Mr. Purcell's Full Biography |
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Thomas Rando, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University, USA Dr. Rando is Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University, where he is the Director of the Glenn Laboratories for the Biology of Aging. He is also Chief of Neurology and Director of the Rehabilitation Research & Development Center of Excellence at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care... Read Dr. Rando's Full Biography |
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Lucy Rose
Founder and President of The Cost of Loneliness Project; Former Director, Division of Drug Advertising and Marketing, CDER, FDA, USA Ms. Lucy Rose is founder and president of The Cost of Loneliness Project and founder and CEO of Lucy Rose and Associates (LRA), LLC, a global consulting firm. Ms. Rose’s combination of education and experience in for-profit, non-profit, government, and patient care settings, coupled with her extensive experience as a trainer... Read Ms. Rose's Full Biography |
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Ed Saltzman
Executive Chairman, Cello Health BioConsulting, USA Ed is Executive Chairman of Cello Health BioConsulting (CHBC), previously Defined Health, after having led the sale of Defined Health to Cello Health in 2017. CHBC is a leading strategic business development advisory firm serving senior executives in pharma, biotech and investment sectors at clients based in the US, Europe... Read Mr. Saltzman's Full Biography |
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Vittorio Sebastiano, PhD
Co-Founder of Turn Biotechnologies and Assistant Professor of Stanford University, USA Dr. Vittorio Sebastiano is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford School of Medicine. His lab has established a new technology named ERA (Epigenetic Reprogramming of Aging), which repurposes the conceptual idea of reprogramming, with the goal to promote epigenetic rejuvenation... Read Dr. Sebastiano's Full Biography |
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Thomas Seoh
President and CEO, Kinexum, USA Thomas Seoh is President and CEO of Kinexum, a strategic advisory firm that provides regulatory, clinical, CMC and other translational guidance for life science product development. He is an entrepreneur/executive who has held senior leadership positions in public and private pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies... Read Mr. Seoh's Full Biography |
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Donna Shalala
U.S. Representative for the 27th Congressional District of Florida, USA Congresswoman Shalala serves as Representative for Florida’s 27th District, which includes the city of Miami and surrounding municipalities in Miami-Dade County. She is an advocate for women’s rights, civil rights, increased access to healthcare, better education and public schools, and a clean and sustainable environment... Read Congresswoman Shalala's Full Biography |
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Almaz Sharman, MD, PhD
President of Academy of Preventative Medicine of Kazakhstan Dr. Sharman is the President of the Academy of Preventive Medicine of Kazakhstan and the co-founder of HealthCity network of clinics. Prior to serving in this capacity, Dr. Sharman held numerous positions around the world. Dr. Sharman worked at the University of Alabama at Birmingham as a member of an international team... Read Dr. Sharman's Full Biography |
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Gerald Shulman, MD, PhD
George R. Cowgill Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Physiology at Yale University, USA Dr. Shulman is the George R. Cowgill Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Physiology at Yale. He is also Co-Director of the Yale Diabetes Research Center. Dr. Shulman has pioneered the use of magnetic resonance spectroscopy combined with mass spectrometry to non-invasively examine intracellular glucose... Read Dr. Shulman's Full Biography |
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Richard Siow, PhD
Director of Ageing Research at King’s College London, UK Dr. Siow is the Director of Ageing Research at King’s College London (ARK), a cross-Faculty consortium of researchers taking a multidisciplinary approach to better understand the mechanisms of ageing, improving health-span and the social impact of ageing. He was a graduate of King’s College London... Read Dr. Siow's Full Biography |
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Jay Skyler, MD, MACP
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Psychology at the University of Miami, USA Dr. Jay Skyler is currently Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Psychology in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the University of Miami. He is also Deputy Director for Clinical Research and Academic Programs at the Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami... Read Dr. Skyler's Full Biography |
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Steven Smith, MD
Chief Scientific Officer of AdventHealth Research Institute Orlando, USA Dr. Smith is Senior Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer of AdventHealth Research Institute Orlando, guiding the research vision and scientific expansion of Florida’s largest network of hospitals. He also currently serves as the Scientific Director of the Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes, which is dedicated... Read Dr. Smith's Full Biography |
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Peter Stein, MD
Director of U.S. FDA CDER Office of New Drugs, USA Dr. Stein is the Director of the U.S. FDA CDER Office of New Drugs (OND). OND is responsible for the regulatory oversight of investigational studies during drug development and decisions regarding marketing approval for new (innovator or non-generic) drugs, including decisions related to changes to already marketed products... Read Dr. Stein's Full Biography |
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Lawrence Steinman, MD — Co-Chair
George A. Zimmermann Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences and Professor of Pediatrics at the Beckman Center for Molecular Medicine, Stanford University, USA Dr. Lawrence Steinman is Professor of Neurology, Neurological Sciences and Pediatrics at Stanford University and was Chair of the Stanford Program in Immunology from 2001 to 2011. His research focuses on what provokes relapses and remissions in multiple sclerosis (MS), as well as antigen-specific therapy in type 1 diabetes... Read Dr. Steinman's Full Biography |
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Hazel Szeto, MD, PhD
Director of Research at Social Profit Network, USA Dr. Hazel H. Szeto is a research scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur in drug development. She received her MD and PhD in Pharmacology from Weill Cornell University Medical College and served on the faculty for 37 years. In 2016, Dr. Szeto left Cornell to devote her time to direct research for Social Profit Network... Read Dr. Szeto's Full Biography |
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Pietro Antonio Tataranni, MD
Deputy Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President of Life Sciences for PepsiCo R&D, USA Dr. Pietro Antonio Tataranni is the Deputy Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President of Life Sciences for PepsiCo R&D. Dr. Tataranni joined PepsiCo in September 2018 and is responsible for leading the development and execution of a nutrition and bio-sciences strategy in support of the company’s portfolio transformation... Read Dr. Tataranni's Full Biography |
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Pamela Taub, MD, FACC
Cardiologist/ Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Step Family Foundation Cardiovascular Rehabilitation and Wellness Center at UC San Diego, USA Dr. Taub is the founding director of the Step Family Foundation Cardiac Rehabilitation and Wellness Center at Jacobs Medical Center at UC San Diego Health, which provides a comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation program for patients with established heart disease. Dr. Taub is a board-certified cardiologist who focuses on general... Read Dr. Taub's Full Biography |
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Kris Verburgh, MD
Researcher at the Free University Brussels, Belgium, and Venture Partner of Longevity Vision Fund Dr. Kris Verburgh is an expert on the future of medicine and biotechnology, with a focus on aging and longevity. He examines how new technologies will disrupt medicine, health(care), and our lifespan, which trends and paradigm shifts in the medical field are happening, and what impact the fourth industrial revolution... Read Dr. Verburgh's Full Biography |
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Douglas Wallace, PhD
Director of the Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA Dr. Wallace is a geneticist and evolutionary biologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, where he serves as Director of the Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine and holds the Michael and Charles Barnett Endowed Chair in Pediatric Mitochondrial Medicine and Metabolic Diseases... Read Dr. Wallace's Full Biography |
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Ryan Walsh
Vice President for Client Services at Real Endpoints, USA Ryan Walsh serves as the Vice President for Client Services at Real Endpoints. In this capacity, Ryan is responsible for marketing and promotional activities, product and service quality and, most importantly, client development and support... Read Mr. Walsh's Full Biography |
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Jeffrey Wolf, MBA, JD
Founder and CEO of Heat Biologics, USA Jeffrey Wolf is the founder and CEO of Heat Biologics. He also founded Seed-One Ventures, a firm focused on the systematic formation and management of new biomedical companies based upon breakthrough research. Throughout his career, Mr. Wolf has specialized in building new life-science companies from the ground up... Read Mr. Wolf's Full Biography |
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Tina Woods
Founder and CEO of Collider Health, Co-Founder and CEO of Longevity International, Secretariat Director of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity, UK Ms. Woods is Founder and CEO of Collider Health, an ecosystem builder that works with organisations in both private and public sectors to transform health with sustainable impact at scale. She specialises in connecting government, business and academia to align thinking and take action. She works with the National AHSN AI... Read Ms. Woods' Full Biography |
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Hanadie Yousef, PhD
Co-Founder and CEO of Juvena Therapeutics Dr. Yousef is a visionary entrepreneur and pioneering scientist leading Juvena Therapeutics in its mission to develop protein-based therapeutics to promote tissue regeneration and increase healthspan to prevent, reverse, and cure degenerative diseases. Dr. Yousef’s research over the last 17 years has been supported by multiple... Read Dr. Yousef's Full Biography |
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Faiez Zannad, MD, PhD
Head of the Division of Heart Failure, Hypertension and Preventive Cardiology at the Academic Hospital, and Director of the Clinical Investigation Centre (INSERM-CHU) in Nancy, France Dr. Zannad is Professor of Therapeutics at the University of Lorraine, Head of the Division of Heart Failure, Hypertension and Preventive Cardiology, and Director of the INSERM Clinical Investigation Centre at Institut Lorrain du Coeur et des Vaisseaux, Nancy, France. He is a cardiologist and heart failure (HF) specialist... Read Dr. Zannad's Full Biography |
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Michael Zemel, PhD
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of NuSirt Biopharma, USA Dr. Michael Zemel is founder and CSO of NuSirt Biopharma, where he leads research programs focused on energy-sensing and development of therapeutics for diseases of aging and over-nutrition. Previously, he was Professor of Nutrition and of Medicine at the University of Tennessee from 1990-2012... Read Dr. Zemel's Full Biography |
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Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD
CEO of InSilico Medicine, USA Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov is the founder and CEO of InSilico Medicine, a global leader in the next-generation artificial intelligence technologies for drug discovery, biomarker development, and aging research. At InSilico, he pioneered the applications of generative adversarial networks and reinforcement learning techniques... Read Dr. Zhavoronkov's Full Biography |