Welcome to the Nordic Aging Society
Registration is now open to the annual meeting (closes October 12th). The meeting is free for society members.
Create a profile to join the Society and the annual meeting!
Create a profile to join the Society and the annual meeting!
The Nordic Aging Society presents:
Symposium on Aging, Mon-Tue 20-21 October, 2025
Registration is free for society members! Join the society here and register for the symposium via your NAS profile. Annual fees are very affordable (trainees ~14 Euro, regular 27 euros). Registration for the symposium closes on October 12th.
Huge thanks to our amazing sponsors that allows the meeting to happen:
Venue: Grand Hotel Reykjavik, Iceland
Use registration code HI2025 for a 10% discount
Program
(Important, time is in Iceland time zone)
(Important, time is in Iceland time zone)
Monday October 20th
9.30-9.50 Coffee & registration
9.50–10.00 Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, State of the Union
10.00-10.30 Vera Gorbunova, Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Biology and Medicine, Co-director Rochester Aging Research Center, University of Rochester, USA
10.30-11.00 Folkert Kuipers, Professor, Scientific Director of ERIBA, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), The Netherlands
11.00-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-11.30 Qi Zhang, University of Copenhagen
11.30-11.45 Attila Sebe, Oulu University
11.45-12.00 Aino Heikkinen, University of Helsinki
12.00-13.00 Poster session & lunch
13.00-13.30 Molecule and VitaDAO
13.30-14.00 Sara Hägg, Associate Professor, Karolinska Institutet
14.00-14.30 Coffee
14.30-15.00 Bryndís Eva Birgisdóttir, Professor, University of Iceland
15.00-15.30 Laura Niedernhofer, Professor, University of Minnesota, USA
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-16.15 Farrukh Abbas Chaudhry, University of Oslo
16.15-16.30 Hampus Hagelin, Karolinska Institutet
16.30-16.45 Sierra Lore, University of Copenhagen
16.45-17.00 Annikka Polster, Oslo University
17.00-18.00 Break with Molecule and VitaDAO microgrants
17.30-19.00 Poster session & mingle
19.00 Dinner
Tuesday October 21st
9.00-9.30 Brian Kennedy, Distinguished Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS)
9.30-10.00 Vilmundur Gudnason, Professor, University of Iceland
10.00-10.30 Coffee
11.30-11.45 Laura Berliocchi, University of Copenhagen
10.45-11.00 Ida Karlsson, Karolinska Institutet
11.00-11.15 Francesca Castoldi, Karolinska Institutet
11.15-11.30 Chiara Dalla Santa, Ambr Institute
11.30-11.45 Michael Ben Ezra, University of Copenhagen
11.45-12.00 Shu-qin Cao, University of Oslo
12.00-17.00 Trip to Grindavik
17.00-19.00 NAS board meeting
Erlingur Sigurður Jóhannsson
Morten Scheibye-Knudsen
