The International Longevity Summit 2023 is an important event on the global circuit. The conference will provide relevant insights on longevity, expert education, AI, investment opportunities, and excellent networking opportunities at an exclusive location. Discover the science of longevity as well as current research on longevity and aging.
The International Longevity Insights
Longevity features daily content for the conference and speakers taking part in the summit. Key themes for the conference include:
- The One Health Approach Economics of Longevity in Africa: The African Drug Development, Regulatory, and Market Access Landscape
- Funding and Driving Innovation on Longevity and Precision Health: The impact of R&D on longevity and precision health in Africa
- Longevity Research and Biomedical Innovation for Healthy Longevity: The Science of Longevity – Current Research on Longevity and Aging in Africa.
- Utilizing Omics and Data Science for Precision Health and Longevity Innovative Longevity Interventions and Precision Healthcare Approaches in Clinical Medicine
Introducing The 2023 International Longevity Summit Speaker Line-Up
In today’s post, we feature two leading specialists in the field of aging science. Dr. Aubrey de Grey, President & Chief Science Officer LEV Foundation, USA, and Jaco Hoffman (DPhil, Oxon), Professor of Socio-Gerontology, Optentia Research Unit, North-West University (Vanderbijlpark Campus), South Africa.
Dr. Aubrey de Grey
Dr. Aubrey de Grey
Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge, UK, and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Foundation, a non-profit charity dedicated to combating the aging process. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, the world’s only peer-reviewed journal focused on intervention in aging.
Dr. de Grey’s research interest encompasses the causes of all cellular side-effects of metabolism ”damage” that constitute mammalian aging and the design of interventions to repair or prevent that damage.
He has developed a possibly comprehensive plan for such repair, termed Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS). This breaks the aging problem down into seven major classes of damage and identifies detailed approaches to addressing each one.
A key aspect of SENS is that it can potentially extend a healthy lifespan without limit, even though this repair only needs to approach perfection rapidly enough to keep the overall level of damage below pathogenic levels. Dr. de Grey has termed this required rate of improvement of repair therapies “longevity escape velocity.”
At the Longevity Summit, Dr. Aubrey de Grey will be speaking on pioneering breakthroughs in Africa, what Longevity Science can contribute to, and how it will benefit Africa and the world.
Jaco Hoffman (DPhil, Oxon)
Jaco Hoffman
Jaco Hoffman (DPhil, Oxon) is a Professor of Socio-Gerontology at the Optentia Research Unit at the North-West University in South Africa, where he leads the Ageing and Generational Dynamics in Africa (AGenDA) program.
He is also a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford, UK, where he co-ordinates the UN-endorsed African Research Network on Ageing (AFRAN). AFRAN brings together African and international institutions and individuals from academia, policy, and practice to develop and expand African research and training capacity on aging.
Furthermore, he is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Ageing in Africa, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, and was a past president of the South African Gerontological Association (SAGA) as well as a founding member of the South African Older Person’s Forum.
With Prof Sebastiana Kalula (UCT), Jaco co-directs the International Longevity Centre (ILC) – South Africa and is part of the Board of Directors at the International Federation of Ageing (IFA).
His research experience relates to the Social Sciences (Sociology, Anthropology) broadly with specialization in the multi-disciplinary field of Socio-gerontology (including topics like HIV/AIDS, poverty, [long-term] care, families, and community development).
At the Longevity Summit, Hoffman will discuss aging and generational dynamics in Africa.
