AFAR is pleased to share an upcoming webinar organized by our partners American Aging Association (AGE), Gerontological Society of America (GSA), with support from the Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging.

Geared for the scientific community, the webinar will feature experts in Biology of Aging, Immunology and Infectious Disease, and Clinical Geriatrics. The goal of the webinar is to explore the basis for the profound skew in vulnerability to COVID-19 where older individuals are at much greater risk of succumbing to disease with much higher mortality rates than for the population at large.

This session is designed to be translational, spanning the spectrum of aging including each of the sections within GSA. The speakers will be asked to provide a brief overview from the perspective of their discipline and the audience will be prompted to engage after each speaker and then in a panel session that will follow.

Featuring presentations by:

• Rozalyn Anderson, PhD (moderator), Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
• Brian K. Kennedy, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, Singapore, Director of National University Health System (NUHS) Centre for Healthy Ageing, Singapore, Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Ageing, Novato, CA, USA
• R. Tamara Konetzka, PhD, Professor, Departments of Public Health Sciences and Medicine Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago
• David Melzer, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Professor, University of Connecticut Center on Aging
• Janko Nikolich-Žugich, MD, PhD, Department Head and Professor, Immunobiology, Co-Director, Arizona Center on Aging, The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tuscon

The program is jointly planned by the American Aging Association (AGE) and GSA. The webinar will be archived on both the GSA and AGE websites within 48 hours of the presentation. As part of the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting Online, this program is supported by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number 1 R13 AG067648-01. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Funding is also provided by Nathan Shock Centers Coordinating Center.