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ARDD 2025 - 12th Aging Research and Drug Discovery Meeting

Event about latest progress in the molecular, cellular and organismal basis of aging organised by Uni of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark)

25-Aug-2025

According to the United Nations, the proportion of people aged over 65 now outnumber children younger than 5. The enormous growth in the elderly population is posing a socioeconomic challenge to societies worldwide, and necessitates new sweeping interventions for age-associated diseases. This year we have an incredibly exciting program with global thought-leaders sharing their latest insights into aging and how we target aging process ensuring everyone lives a healthier and longer life.

Speakers at this event are:

  • Ala Trusina
  • Alejandro Aguilera
  • Alessandra Zonari
  • Alex Zhavoronkov
  • Alexey Terskikh
  • Amy Morgan
  • Ana Maria Cuervo
  • Anastasia Georgievskaya
  • Andrea B. Maier
  • Andreas Beyer
  • Andrei Seluanov
  • Andrew Adams
  • Anna Murray
  • Anne Brunet
  • Anne Marije van Harten
  • Avi D. Spier
  • Bai Lu
  • Bartlomiej Piechowski-Jozwiak
  • Benjamin Friedrich
  • Benjamin Johnson
  • Bente Klarlund Pedersen
  • Berthil Frederik Forrest Clasen
  • Björn Schumacher
  • Brian Kennedy
  • Charlotte Suetta
  • Christoph Kuppe
  • Chuen Yan Leung
  • Clive Cookson
  • Collin Ewald
  • Cristiana Banila
  • Dario Riccardo Valenzano
  • David Dreyer Lassen
  • David Luu
  • David W. Dodick
  • Daniela Bakula
  • Denis Villemonais
  • Dudley W. Lamming
  • Edward Rudnic
  • Elena Bonfiglioli
  • Elias Bou Samra
  • Elise Cachat
  • Emma Teeling
  • Eric Verdin
  • Ethan Liu
  • Evandro Fei Fang
  • Evelyne Bischof
  • Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna
  • Gareth W. Shepherd
  • Garri Zmudze
  • Geoffrey West
  • George Kuchel
  • Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari
  • Heinrich Jasper
  • In Hwa Jang
  • Jackie Han
  • Jacob Falck Hansen
  • James L. Kirkland
  • Jamie Justice
  • Jan Gruber
  • Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers
  • Jaron Rabinovici
  • Javier Maria Peralta Ramos
  • Jean-Marc Lemaitre
  • Jeffrey West
  • Jeroen Aerssens
  • Jerome Feige
  • Joe Betts-LaCroix
  • John Newman
  • Jonathan Gootenberg
  • Joshua McClure
  • Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte
  • Jun Wu
  • Kennedy Schaal
  • Kitsu Egerton
  • Kunlin Jin
  • Kyle Loh
  • Laura Niedernhofer
  • Lee Cronin
  • Lida Katsimpardi
  • Lotte Bjerre Knudsen
  • Luc Aguilar
  • Lucia Marucci
  • Luigi Ferrucci
  • Lykke Sylow
  • Mahdi Moqri
  • Marc P. Bernegger
  • Marсo Demaria
  • Marija Cvijovic
  • Marissa Schafer
  • Marta Guasch-Ferré
  • Max Wilson
  • Maximilian Unfried
  • Maximina Hee Yun
  • Michael Levitt
  • Michael Ringel
  • Michela Deleidi
  • Miriam Merad
  • Morten Meldal
  • Morten Scheibye-Knudsen
  • Mourad Topors
  • Murali Venkatesan
  • Nan Hao
  • Nathan K. LeBrasseur
  • Neda Bagheri
  • Niklas Anzinger
  • Nir Barzilai
  • Omar Abudayyeh
  • Paul Kohlhaas
  • Peter Fedichev
  • Peter Lidsky
  • Peter Mullen
  • Philipp Gut
  • Priya Singhal
  • Rafael de Cabo
  • Rafael Mantovani Bottos
  • Riekelt Houtkooper
  • Risa Starr
  • Ryan Smith
  • Sam Burrows
  • Sebastian Lobentanzer
  • Sebastien Thuault
  • Sergey Jakimov
  • Shahaf Peleg
  • Sharon Rosenzweig-Lipson
  • Shi Yu Jiang
  • Sophia Liu
  • Steffen Rulands
  • Steve Horvath
  • Steven Austad
  • Thomas A. Rando
  • Tina Woods
  • Tom Zuber
  • Tony Wyss-Coray
  • Tuomas Tammela
  • Tzipora Strauss
  • Vadim Gladyshev
  • Vera Gorbunova
  • Vijay Vaswani
  • Weilan Wang
  • Wei-Wu He
  • Wenting Zhao
  • Will Harborne
  • XingLi Wang
  • Yousin Suh
  • Yusuf Roohani
  • Yuta Lee

Visit website: https://www.agingpharma.org/#2025

See also

University of Copenhagen

Public research university

Details last updated 07-Mar-2025

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Mentioned in this Resource

Alessandra Zonari

Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer of One Skin

Alex Zhavoronkov

CEO of InSilico Medicine & Deep Longevity. CSO of Biogerontology Research Foundation

Ana Maria Cuervo

Professor in the Departments of Developmental and Molecular Biology and of Medicine of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Andrea Maier

Oon Chiew Seng Professor in Medicine, Director, Centre for Healthy Longevity, NUS

Andrei Seluanov

Associate Professor at University of Rochester

Andrew Adams

Co-director at Lilly Institutes for Genetic Medicine and SVP Neurodegeneration Research

Anne Brunet

Professor of Genetics at Stanford University

Bai Lu

Professor at the Tsinghua University

Bente Klarlund Pedersen

Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Motivational speaker

Bjoern Schumacher

Professor for Genome Stability in Aging and Disease at the University of Cologne

Brian Kennedy

Prof of Biochemistry and Physiology at NUS, CSO Ponce De Leon Health

Collin Ewald

Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, Founder of Swiss Society for Aging Research

Cristiana Banila

Molecular biologist, Co-founder and CSO at Mitra Bio

Daniela Bakula

Assistant professor at Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen

Dario Valenzano

Group leader at the Leibniz Institute on Aging

David Luu

A medical doctor and tech entrepreneur focused on longevity science

Dudley Lamming

Associate Professor Of Medicine at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Emma Teeling

Associate Professor at University College Dublin

Eric Verdin

CEO & President at Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Evandro Fei Fang

Molecular gerontologist and Associate Professor at University of Oslo

Evelyne Bischof

Longevity physician at Human Longevity, Inc. and Associate professor at Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences

Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna

Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR)

Garri Zmudze

Managing Partner at LongeVC, Advising the pioneers of next-gen medicine, breakthrough biotech and accessible longevity

George Kuchel

Director of the University of Connecticut Center on Aging

Heike Bischoff-Ferrari

Professor of Geriatrics and Age Research at the University of Zurich

Heinrich Jasper

Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.

James Kirkland

Researcher on different aging related diseases

Jamie Justice

Executive Director of XPRIZE Healthspan and Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Jan Gruber

Associate Professor at National University of Singapore and Yale-NUS College

Jan Hoeijmakers

Professor of Molecular Genetics at Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam.

Jean-Marc Lemaitre

Research Director at INSERM.

Joe Betts-LaCroix

American scientist and entrepreneur known for his discoveries in biophysics and for creating the world's smallest personal computer

John Newman

Geriatrician, basic science researcher, and educator at the Buck Institute and the UCSF

Joshua McClure

Founder, CEO and Chairman at Maxwell Biosciences

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte

Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Director at San Diego Institute of Science, Altos Labs

Kennedy Schaal

Chief Executive Officer at Rejuve.Bio, Spin-off CEO at SingularityNET and Senior Biologist at Rejuve.AI

Kunlin Jin

Tenured Professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center

Laura Niedernhofer

Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota

Leroy (Lee) Cronin

CEO Founder of Chemify and Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow

Luigi Ferrucci

Scientific Director at the National Institutes of Aging (NIA)

Lykke Sylow

Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Mahdi Moqri

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in Aging Research at the Stanford University

Marc P. Bernegger

Founding partner at Maximon and Entrepreneur focusing on Longevity & Digital Assets

Marco Demaria

Group Leader and Associate Professor at European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA).

Marta Guasch-Ferre

Senior Research Scientist at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Maximilian Unfried

PhD student at the National University of Singapore applying AI and Complexity Science to Aging Biology and Lipids

Maximina Yun

Research Group Leader at the CRTD/DFG Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden.

Michael Levitt

Professor of Biophysics at Stanford University

Michael Ringel

Managing Director and Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group

Morten Meldal

Danish chemist and Nobel laureate, professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen

Morten Scheibye-Knudsen

Head of the Biology of Ageing Laboratory at the University of Copenhagen

Mourad Topors

Chief Scientific Officer of Repair Biotechnologies

Nan Hao

Associate Professor at UC San Diego

Nathan LeBrasseur

Professor & Director of Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging, Mayo Clinic

Niklas Anzinger

Founder of Infinita VC

Nir Barzilai

Founding director of the Institute for Aging Research

Omar Abudayyeh

Fellow, McGovern Institute

Paul Kohlhaas

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Molecule

Peter Fedichev

Founder of Gero and physicist in drug discovery land

Philipp Gut

Cell Biology Department Head at Nestlé

Rafael de Cabo

Senior researcher in the field of gerontology at National Institute on Aging

Riekelt Houtkooper

Professor of Translational Metabolism at AMC.

Ryan Smith

Founder at TruDiagnostic, Global Head of Research & Dev

Sebastien Thuault

Chief Editor of Nature Aging

Sergey Jakimov

Longenesis CEO

Shahaf Peleg

Group leader at FBN and Co-founder and CEO of Luminova Biotech

Sharon Rosenzweig-Lipson

Chief Scientific Officer at Life Biosciences

Steve Horvath

Professor of Human Genetics & Biostatistics at UCLA

Steven Austad

Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

Thomas A. Rando

Professor of Neurology at Stanford University

Tina Woods

CEO and Co-Founder, Longevity International. Author of Live Longer with AI

Tony Wyss-Coray

Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine

Tzipi Strauss

Director of Department of Neonatology, Edmond & Lily Safra Children Hospital, Sheba Medical Center

Vadim Gladyshev

Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Vera Gorbunova

Co-director Rochester Aging Research Center

Wei-Wu He

Executive Chairman of Human Longevity Inc

Will Harborne

Co-founder of ZKV and entrepreneur

Yusuf Roohani

Machine learning researcher and Group Lead at the Arc Institute

Yuta Lee

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Accelerated Biosciences

Topics mentioned on this page:
Ageing Research, Drug Discovery