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Life Sciences Summit - "The Nature of Aging" Panel

Start Time: November 21, 2013



 

Thursday November 21
1:15-2:10pm
Convene Midtown – 730 Third Ave, NYC
 

AFAR Deputy Scientific Director Steven Austad facilitated a panel exploring what our current understanding of aging science can predict in terms of our ability to extend the average human life span, and what that means in terms of new therapeutic development."


Panelists included:

  • William J. Evans, PhD, Vice President, Head, Muscle Metabolism Discovery Performance Unit, GlaxoSmithKline
  • Richard Mayeux, MD, Chair, Department of Neurology, Co-Director, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University Medical Center
  • Kenneth I. Maynard, PhD, FAHA, Global Head, External Innovation, Aging, Therapeutic Strategic Unit, Sanofi US, Inc.
  • Lina Obeid, MD, Vice Dean of Research, Stony Brook University School of Medicine
     

This was the first time a panel on Aging was organized at the Life Science Summit. Learn more here.

 

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