Monday October 20th
9.30-9.50 Coffee & registration
9.50– 10.00 Introduction to the Nordic Aging Society (NAS)
10.00-10.30 Vera Gorbunova, Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Biology and Medicine, Co Co-director Rochester Aging Research Center, University of Rochester, USA
10.30-11.00 Folkert Kuipers, Professor, Scientific Director of ERIBA and head of the Department of the Biology of Ageing at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), The Netherlands
11.00-12.00 Selected student & postdoc presentations
12.00-13.00 Poster session & lunch
13.00-13.30 Luigi Ferrucci, Director National Insitute on Aging, NIH, USA
13.30-14.00 Kári Stefánsson, Professor, University of Iceland, CEO deCODE
14.00-14.30 Laura Niedernhofer, Professor, Director of the Institute on the Biology of Aging & Metabolism, University of Minnesota, USA
14.30-15.00 Coffee
15.00-16.00 Selected student & postdoc presentations
16.00-16.30 Break
16.30-17.30 Poster session & mingle
18.00 Dinner


Tuesday October 21st
9.00-9.30 Brian Kennedy, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry & Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS )
9.30-10.00 Vilmundur Gudnason, Professor, University of Iceland
10.00-10.30 Coffee
10.30-12.00 Selected student & postdoc presentations
12.00-13.00 Poster session & lunch
13.00-15.00 NAS board meeting


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Societies, including the Nordic countries, are experiencing an explosion in the proportion of old individuals. Indeed, the proportion of individuals aged more than 65 has increased from around 10% in 1965 to 20% in 2019 and this increase is likely to continue in the future. With old-age comes increased chronic morbidities which requires long-term and costly care. These demographic changes pose a serious socioeconomic challenge for our region and new interventions and solutions will become critically needed to allow us to maintain our high standard of living. This network brings together Nordic leaders in the field of aging research with the goal of finding solutions to these challenges allowing us a sustainable and long-term future of healthy aging in the Nordic countries.

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