By way of a reminder, the Aging 2008 symposium will be held later this month, on June 27th at UCLA, Los Angeles. It's a free event for the public, organized by the Methuselah Foundation, and attended by many of the movers and shakers in aging science and advocacy for longevity research:
Applying the new technologies of regenerative and genetic medicine, the engineering approach to aging promises to dramatically extend healthy human life within the next few decades.How do you and your loved ones stand to benefit from the coming biomedical revolution? Are you prepared? Is society prepared?
At Aging 2008 you will engage with top scientists and advocates as they present their findings and advice, and learn what you can do to help accelerate progress towards a cure for the disease and suffering of aging.
The symposium leads into the Understanding Aging scientific conference, an extension of the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence conference series of past years. These events are a necessary part of establishing a research community sufficiently large and well-organized to make significant progress in longevity science. We'll be seeing more of this sort of thing in the years ahead: connections made, minds changed, notes swapped, science moved forward.