Healthy Aging & Longevity

Online conference & Network

30 October 2024, 8:00 
 
Healthy Aging & Longevity

 

A collaboration between

 

AGE-WELL, University of Toronto, Canada

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

 

 

Proposal Submission Deadline: September 22, 2024

Acceptance Notification: October 7, 2024

APPLY HERE!

 

For questions, please contact your respective university contact, with the email subject title: “AGE-WELL-NU-TAU Workshop”:

•       Northwestern: international@northwestern.edu   

•       Tel Aviv University:  intlprojects@tauex.tau.ac.il

•       University of Toronto:   applications@agewell-nce.ca

 

 

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