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The Targeting Metabesity 2021 conference will take on one of the greatest healthcare challenges and opportunities of the 21st century: the prevention or delay of chronic diseases to achieve healthy longevity for all.  It will take place in October 11 – 14 2021, both virtually and live in Washington DC. United States of America.

A platform for those interested in longevity to address abundant opportunities

This year, the organizers of Targeting Metabesity are aiming for an even more innovative and cross-disciplinary conference that addresses the abundant opportunities for achieving equitable healthspan and the remaining challenges for converting discoveries into products for the general population.

TARGETING METABESITY 2021 takes 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 lifespan—healthspan

Metabesity 2021 gathers 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.

Targeting Metabesity is an ongoing call to action and a silo-busting conversation for tractable steps today to address major healthcare challenges!

Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming M.D

THE HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF BILLIONS OF HUMANS AND TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SAVINGS OPPORTUNITY, ARE AT STAKE.

​Expanding evidence supports that the major chronic diseases—cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes, obesity, cancer, and the aging process itself—have common metabolic roots and thus may be susceptible to shared solutions. Metabesity names this constellation of conditions.

What is metabesity?

‘Metabesity’ is a term coined by G Alexander Fleming MD to reference the constellation of interconnected diseases with metabolic roots. Targeting these metabolic underpinnings could be a productive approach to delaying, or even preventing, many or most of the chronic diseases of aging.

Our metabolism is comprised of biochemical reactions that keep us alive and work together in a coordinated manner that maintains good health, but as metabolic coordination disintegrates, we start to age. Pair the disintegration with over nutrition and a sedentary lifestyle, and aging becomes the largest risk factor for the majority of chronic, non-communicable diseases.

“The US needs to declare the prevention of chronic disease and extension of healthspan a bipartisan national priority and seek to become a global leader in promoting interventions to increase healthy longevity…” Alexander Flemming

Metabesity encompasses most of the major chronic diseases of our time. Conditions such as diabetes, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases have metabolic roots, and may therefore be susceptible to common solutions. Aging itself can be characterised largely as a dismetabolic condition. For example, a common sign of Metabolic discoordination is the build-up of excess visceral fat, which has been found to add to the presence of senescent cells which contribute to aging. The build-up can also cause chronic inflammation and increase the risk of age-related diseases.


Lawrence Steinman

Lawrence Steinman M.D

Alexander Fleming, MD, and Lawrence Steinman, MD are the co-chairs.

Registration is free

Metabesity VIRTUAL, 11-14 October 2021

Free Admittance is offered to all conference sessions and special events for the virtual event. When you register, you will also receive complimentary membership in The Kitalys Institute Campus  – a silo-breaking community dedicated to the delay and prevention of age-related diseases.

The organizers are also offering a Premium Admittance at $149 that includes all of the above, plus recordings and videos, a Directory of Attendees, Speakers and Sponsors, an eBook of our curated posters (with explanatory videos from their creators).

You can register for Targeting Metabesity  here.

 

Just a Few of the Metabesity Speakers

Dale Abel, MD, DPhil
Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the the University of Iowa, USA
Adriane Berg
Executive Director of The Kitalys Institute, USA
Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD
​Scientific Director at National Institute of Aging, Italy
Lord Geoffrey
​Filkin CBE

Chair, APPG for Longevity, Strategic Advisory Group, UK
Paulo Fontoura, MD, PhD
Global Head and SVP, Neuroscience and Rare Diseases Clinical Development at Roche, Switzerland
Guido Kroemer, MD, PhD
Director of the Metabolomics and Cell Biology platforms of the Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center​, France
Jennifer Ligibel, MD
Director, Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Joan Mannick, MD
Co-Founder and CMO of resTORbio, USA​​
Jamie Metzl
Author of Hacking Darwin: Genetic Revolution and the Future of Humanity, USA
Gerald Shulman, MD, PhD
George R. Cowgill Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Physiology at Yale University​, USA
Pietro Antonio Tataranni, MD
Deputy Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President of Life Sciences for PepsiCo R&D, USA
Hanadie Yousef, PhD
Co-Founder and CEO of Juvena Therapeutics
Alexander Fleming, MD
Founder and Executive Chairman of Kinexum, USA
Conference Co-Chair
Lawrence Steinman, MD
Stanford University​, USA
Conference Co-Chair
…PLUS dozens of stellar speakers and keynoters you want to hear!
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Em Sloane

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