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Collin Ewald

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

I have a longstanding interest in understanding the aging process and how to alter this process to slow age-related functional decline, damage accumulation and age-dependent diseases. Everybody ages, but not at the same rate. Some live a healthy and youthful life. My interest is to determine the molecular components that enable a youthful life by using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. There are several interventions (dietary restriction, altering hormonal signaling, or altering growth pathways) that increase youthfulness and lifespan in a conserved spectrum of organisms including C. elegans. By comparing long-lived animals to normal lived animals, we found that essentially all longevity interventions invest in enhancing the extracellular matrix (ECM), which is the scaffolding framework that surrounds and supports cells, tissues, organs, and bones. Damage to the ECM during aging could lead to structural defects impairing organ integrity and stem cell function, ultimately leading to organ failure and death. Longevity interventions prevent weakening of the ECM by replenishing the ECM with new components, such as collagens. We demonstrated that impairing this ECM replenishing of collagens prevented longevity of all otherwise long-lived animals, suggesting that ECM remodeling is a fundamental process to stay youthful. These findings will open up a whole new and exciting avenue of research investigation in the field of aging research. 

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See also: Academia Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) - Public research university for technology and science

Details last updated 24-Apr-2021

Collin Ewald is also referenced in the following:

ARDD 2021 - 8th Aging Research and Drug Discovery Meeting

31-Aug-2021 to 03-Sep-2021

Online event about latest progress in the molecular, cellular and organismal basis of aging organized by University of Copenhagen chaired by Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, Daniela Bakula and Alex Zhavoronkov, and with many speakers.

ARDD 2023 - 10th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting

28-Aug-2023 to 01-Sep-2023

Event about latest progress in the molecular, cellular and organismal basis of aging organized by University of Copenhagen

Dr. Collin Ewald | Collagen & Extracellular Matrix During Aging

Live Longer World podcast #10 with Dr. Collin Ewald as a guest

Healthy Masters International Conference

05-Nov-2022 to 06-Nov-2022

Healthy Masters conference about living longer and healthier life

Healthy Masters International Conference 2023

11-Nov-2023 to 12-Nov-2023

Healthy Masters conference about living longer and healthier life

Longhack

21-Jan-2022 to 23-Jan-2022

Online event about longevity boosting organized by Longevity Hackathon with many speakers from the biotech, pharma and other fields

Collin Ewald News

Lifespan.io reports back from Aging Research and Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD 2023)

Lifespan.io (LEAF) - 26-Sep-2023

Key points from Arkadi Mazin's summary of 5 days of talks by geroscientists and biotech leaders

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Maximon announces 50,000 CHF (approx. £40K) Longevity Prize for Translational Research

Maximon - 01-Mar-2022

And by longevity it means "substantially increase health span or life span" - apply now!

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Extracellular matrix gene expression: a novel approach to find geroprotective drugs

Lifespan.io (LEAF) - 11-Aug-2021

ECM reprogramming to identify drugs which can slow-down or prevent age-related diseases

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