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Metabesity 2021 Speaker Line-up: Meet Nir Barzilai, MD

Metabesity 2021 will take place between the 11th – 14th October 2021 virtually and in Washington DC. The conference hosts a stellar line-up of speakers. Meet Nir Barzilai, MD,Β  Director of the Institute for Aging Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA.

Metabesity 2021

Metabesity 2021 will gather together stellar speakers from multiple disciplines. Including; science and medicine, behavioral science, government regulation, policy, reimbursement, industry and capital markets, patient advocacy, boomer and senior lifestyle, digital health.

Meet the speaker

Dr. Nir Barzilai is a chaired Professor of Medicine and Genetics and Director of the Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Biology of Aging. This is the biggest center in the world to study the biology of aging. He is the recipient of an NIH Merit Award aiming to extend the healthy life span in rodents by biological interventions. He also studies families of centenarians that have provided genetic/biological insights on the protection against aging. Several developed drugs are based, in part, on these paradigm-changing studies.

Metabesity 2021 speaker

Nir Barzilai, MD

Taming aging with Metformin

Dr. Barzilai is leading the TAME (Targeting/Taming Aging with Metformin) multi-center study. The study seeks to prove that the multiple morbidities of aging can be delayed in humans and to change FDA indications to allow for next-generation interventions against aging.

Dr. Barzilai is a founder of CohBar, Inc. (now a public company), and Chief Medical Advisor for Life Biosciences. He is a co-scientific director of the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and on the board of AFAR and CohBar.

Healthy longevity

Dr. Barzilai is a recipient of numerous prestigious awards. These include the recipient of the 2010 Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction in Aging Research and is the 2018 recipient of the IPSEN Longevity award.

Dr. Barzilai has been featured in major papers, TV programs, and documentaries (TEDx and TEDMED). He has been consulting or presented the promise for targeting aging at the Singapore Prime Minister Office, several international banks, the Vatican, Pepsico, Milkin Institute, The Economist, and Wired Magazine.

Watch Dr Barzilai explain: Age later: Lessons for this pandemic and the next | Dr Nir Barzilai

Targeting Metabesity 2021

This global virtual gathering will take on some of the most critical issues in healthcare today:

  • Focusing on chronic (not just acute) diseases
  • Shifting the spotlight beyond treatment to prevention
  • Going beyond disease-by-disease treatments to prevention of multiple diseases by addressing common root causes
  • Shifting from addressing diseases to extending healthy lifespanβ€”healthspan

More information on Metabesity 2021: Read the FULL welcome message

For more information on all the speakers at Metabesity 2021:Β  See the Speaker List

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