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Joan Mannick
Co-Founder and CEO at Tornado Therapeutics
Dr. Mannick is a leading expert in the mTOR and geroscience fields and has over 15 years of drug development expertise. She has led mTOR inhibitor clinical development programs both as the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of resTORbio, now Adicet Bio, and as an Executive Director of the New Indications Discovery Unit at the Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research. She previously served as Head of Research and Development at Life Biosciences and was a Medical Director at Genzyme working in multiple therapeutic areas. Prior to Genzyme she served as a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and University of Massachusetts Medical School. She received an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and completed her residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital, followed by an infectious diseases fellowship as part of the Harvard Combined Infectious Diseases Program.
Visit website: https://www.tornado-tx.com/team
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Annual Scientific Meeting - Metabolism of Ageing
06-Sep-2021 to 08-Sep-2021
Jointly organised with the Biochemical Society - researcher disciplines include biochemistry, biology and medicine
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
D.C. Summit 2025
28-Apr-2025
The Second Annual Alliance for Longevity Initiatives summit (Washington, D.C., USA)
Extending Human Healthspan and Longevity
19-May-2021
Online webinar focused on longevity extension without health related issues organized by The New York Academy of Sciences with Nir Barzilai and Pinchas Cohen as keynote speakers.
Global Healthspan Summit 2023
29-Nov-2023 to 30-Nov-2023
Longevity summit organised by Hevolution Foundation (Riyadh,Saudi Arabia)
Longevity Leaders World Congress 2022
26-Feb-2022 to 27-Feb-2022
Event for leaders in longevity science, technology, business and finance organized by Longevity Leaders (LSX)
Longevity Medicine Workshop
30-Aug-2021
Workshop is part of ARDD 2021 conference that brings health care providers involved in longevity, organized by Cassandra Coburn and Evelyne Bischof. (FREE)
Metabesity 2021
11-Oct-2021 to 14-Oct-2021
The Kitalys institute virtual conference targeting key questions that will impact the future of aging and extending healthspan
Targeting Metabesity 2022
10-Oct-2022 to 13-Oct-2022
The Kitalys Institute virtual conference about going beyond treating individual diseases to extending healthy lifespan
UK SPINE Annual Conference 2020
11-Nov-2020 to 20-Nov-2020
Series of events focussed on research and innovation in geroscience and ageing therapeutics
