Meeting Report Volume 14, Issue 2 pp 530—543
Meeting Report: Aging Research and Drug Discovery
- 1 Center for Healthy Aging, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2 Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA 94945, USA
- 3 Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
- 4 Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
- 5 Institute for Aging Research, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
- 6 Smilow Center for Translational Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- 7 Department of Molecular Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 8 Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 9 Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, College of Clinical Medicine, Shanghai, China
- 10 Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany
- 11 Department of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- 12 Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- 13 Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London W12 0NN, UK
- 14 CECAD Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- 15 Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China
- 16 FOXO Technologies Inc, Minneapolis, MN 55402, USA
- 17 The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
- 18 Leibniz Institute on Aging, Jena, Germany
- 19 Laboratory of Extracellular Matrix Regeneration, Institute of Translational Medicine, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich, Schwerzenbach CH-8603, Switzerland
- 20 Longitudinal Studies Section, Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
- 21 Program for Regenerative Medicine, IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain
- 22 BioAge Labs, Inc., Richmond, CA 94804, USA
- 23 Arda Therapeutics, San Carlos, CA 94070, USA
- 24 HautAI OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia
- 25 Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- 26 Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
- 27 Molecule, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
- 28 Departments of Biology and Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
- 29 Department of Genetics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- 30 Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 31 L’Oréal Research and Innovation, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France
- 32 ChromaDex Corp, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
- 33 Gordian Biotechnology, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
- 34 Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- 35 Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
- 36 Department of Molecular Cancer Research, Center for Molecular Medicine, Division of Biomedical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 37 Departments of Biochemistry and Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore
- 38 Center for Healthy Longevity, National University Health System, Singapore
- 39 Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
- 40 Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 41 Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Inserm U1138, Paris, France
- 42 Sinovation Ventures and Sinovation AI Institute, Beijing, China
- 43 Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Biotherapies, INSERM UMR 1183, Montpellier, France
- 44 Nagi Bioscience, Ecublens, Switzerland
- 45 USC Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
- 46 Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- 47 Department of Human Movement Sciences, @AgeAmsterdam, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 48 Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore
- 49 Max Perutz Labs, The University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- 50 Institute of Biology of FRC Komi Science Center of Ural Division of RAS, Syktyvkar, Russia
- 51 Russian Clinical and Research Center of Gerontology, Moscow, Russia
- 52 Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
- 53 Insilico Medicine, Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, Hong Kong
- 54 Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
- 55 Tracked.bio, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 56 Cambrian Biopharma, New York, NY 11205, USA
- 57 Hooke London by Health and Longevity Optimisation, London, UK
- 58 Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences and Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- 59 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- 60 Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- 61 Department of Clinical Molecular Biology | UiO, University of Oslo and Akershus University Hospital, Norway
- 62 Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
- 63 Blavatnik Institute, Department of Genetics, Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 94107, USA
- 64 TruDiagnostic, Lexington, KY 40503, USA
- 65 Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Genetics and Development, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
- 66 Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA
- 67 Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- 68 Longevity Vision Fund, New York, NY 10022, USA
- 69 Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 70 OneSkin, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
* Equal contribution
Received: January 4, 2022 Accepted: January 11, 2022 Published: January 28, 2022
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.203859How to Cite
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Abstract
Aging is the single largest risk factor for most chronic diseases, and thus possesses large socioeconomic interest to continuously aging societies. Consequently, the field of aging research is expanding alongside a growing focus from the industry and investors in aging research. This year’s 8th Annual Aging Research and Drug Discovery (ARDD) meeting was organized as a hybrid meeting from August 30th to September 3rd 2021 with more than 130 attendees participating on-site at the Ceremonial Hall at University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and 1800 engaging online. The conference comprised of presentations from 75 speakers focusing on new research in topics including mechanisms of aging and how these can be modulated as well as the use of AI and new standards of practices within aging research. This year, a longevity workshop was included to build stronger connections with the clinical community.