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Meeting Report|Volume 14, Issue 2|pp 530—543

Meeting Report: Aging Research and Drug Discovery

Esther Meron1, Maria Thaysen1, Suzanne Angeli2, Adam Antebi3, Nir Barzilai4,5, Joseph A. Baur6, Simon Bekker-Jensen1, Maria Birkisdottir7,8, Evelyne Bischof9, Jens Bruening10, Anne Brunet11, Abigail Buchwalter12, Filipe Cabreiro13,14, Shiqing Cai15, Brian H. Chen16,17, Maria Ermolaeva18, Collin Y. Ewald19, Luigi Ferrucci20, Maria Carolina Florian21, Kristen Fortney22, Adam Freund23, Anastasia Georgievskaya24, Vadim N. Gladyshev25, David Glass26, Tyler Golato27, Vera Gorbunova28, Jan Hoejimakers29, Riekelt H. Houtkooper30, Sibylle Jager31, Frank Jaksch32, Georges Janssens30, Martin Borch Jensen33, Matt Kaeberlein34, Gerard Karsenty35, Peter de Keizer36, Brian Kennedy2,37,38, James L. Kirkland39, Michael Kjaer40, Guido Kroemer41, Kai-Fu Lee42, Jean-Marc Lemaitre43, David Liaskos44, Valter D. Longo45, Yu-Xuan Lu3, Michael R. MacArthur46, Andrea B. Maier38,47,48, Christina Manakanatas49, Sarah J. Mitchell46, Alexey Moskalev50,51, Laura Niedernhofer52, Ivan Ozerov53, Linda Partridge3, Emmanuelle Passegué54, Michael A. Petr1,55, James Peyer56, Dina Radenkovic57, Thomas A. Rando58, Suresh Rattan59, Christian G. Riedel60, Lenhard Rudolph18, Ruixue Ai61, Manuel Serrano62, Björn Schumacher14, David A. Sinclair63, Ryan Smith64, Yousin Suh65, Pam Taub66, Alexandre Trapp25, Anne-Ulrike Trendelenburg67, Dario Riccardo Valenzano3,18, Kris Verburgh68, Eric Verdin2, Jan Vijg4, Rudi G.J. Westendorp69, Alessandra Zonari70, Daniela Bakula1, Alex Zhavoronkov53, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen1
  • 1Center for Healthy Aging, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA 94945, USA
  • 3Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
  • 4Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
  • 5Institute for Aging Research, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
  • 6Smilow Center for Translational Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
  • 7Department of Molecular Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • 8Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • 9Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, College of Clinical Medicine, Shanghai, China
  • 10Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany
  • 11Department of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
  • 12Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
  • 13Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London W12 0NN, UK
  • 14CECAD Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
  • 15Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China
  • 16FOXO Technologies Inc, Minneapolis, MN 55402, USA
  • 17The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
  • 18Leibniz Institute on Aging, Jena, Germany
  • 19Laboratory of Extracellular Matrix Regeneration, Institute of Translational Medicine, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich, Schwerzenbach CH-8603, Switzerland
  • 20Longitudinal Studies Section, Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
  • 21Program for Regenerative Medicine, IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain
  • 22BioAge Labs, Inc., Richmond, CA 94804, USA
  • 23Arda Therapeutics, San Carlos, CA 94070, USA
  • 24HautAI OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia
  • 25Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
  • 26Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
  • 27Molecule, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
  • 28Departments of Biology and Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
  • 29Department of Genetics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • 30Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 31L’Oréal Research and Innovation, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France
  • 32ChromaDex Corp, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
  • 33Gordian Biotechnology, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
  • 34Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
  • 35Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
  • 36Department of Molecular Cancer Research, Center for Molecular Medicine, Division of Biomedical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • 37Departments of Biochemistry and Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore
  • 38Center for Healthy Longevity, National University Health System, Singapore
  • 39Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
  • 40Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 41Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Inserm U1138, Paris, France
  • 42Sinovation Ventures and Sinovation AI Institute, Beijing, China
  • 43Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Biotherapies, INSERM UMR 1183, Montpellier, France
  • 44Nagi Bioscience, Ecublens, Switzerland
  • 45USC Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
  • 46Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 47Department of Human Movement Sciences, @AgeAmsterdam, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 48Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore
  • 49Max Perutz Labs, The University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  • 50Institute of Biology of FRC Komi Science Center of Ural Division of RAS, Syktyvkar, Russia
  • 51Russian Clinical and Research Center of Gerontology, Moscow, Russia
  • 52Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
  • 53Insilico Medicine, Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, Hong Kong
  • 54Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
  • 55Tracked.bio, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 56Cambrian Biopharma, New York, NY 11205, USA
  • 57Hooke London by Health and Longevity Optimisation, London, UK
  • 58Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences and Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
  • 59Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
  • 60Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 61Department of Clinical Molecular Biology | UiO, University of Oslo and Akershus University Hospital, Norway
  • 62Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
  • 63Blavatnik Institute, Department of Genetics, Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 94107, USA
  • 64TruDiagnostic, Lexington, KY 40503, USA
  • 65Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Genetics and Development, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
  • 66Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA
  • 67Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
  • 68Longevity Vision Fund, New York, NY 10022, USA
  • 69Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 70OneSkin, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
* Equal contribution
Received: January 4, 2022Accepted: January 11, 2022Published: January 28, 2022

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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.