February 11, 2021. Conference and workshops. Clarifying whether and to what degree the current anti-aging approaches work in mice or people.

On the occasion of the next online conference to be held on Thursday, February 11, 2021, from 17:00 to 22:00 PM CET (8.00 AM to 1 PM PDT, 11.00 AM to 4 PM EDT),

we will invite renowned scientists to give an overview of effective anti-aging studies performed on mice or rats as well as the most recent tests performed on humans.

We share with you the link of the videos cut out for each speaker as well as a synthesis of the comments and proposals made during the workshops.


Thursday, 11 February

17:00 – 17:15  Introduction Didier Coeurnelle, Ilia Stambler, Sven Bulterijs 

1. Test on mice/ rats: good practices 

17:15 – 17:30  Conboy Irina “Resetting Aged Blood to Restore Youth”

17:30 – 17:45 Vera Gorbunova  “ Promoting longevity by improving genome stability “ 

17:45 – 18:00  Rodolfo Goya  “ Rejuvenation and life extension” 

18:00 – 18:15   Josh Mitteldorf  « interactions among interventions, and why we can’t just test them separately ».

18:15 – 18:30  Harold Katcher “Breakthrough in age reversal with young blood plasma”  

18:30 – 18:40 Pause

2. Test on human: good practices

18:40 – 18:55   Nir Barzilai “TAME (Targeting Aging with Metformin)”  

18:55 – 19:10  Greg Fahy “Reversal of epigenetic aging and immunosenescence trends in humans”

19:10 – 19:25 Hanadie Yousef (Juvena Therapeutics)  « Harnessing the regenerative secretome of human embryonic stem cells to rejuvenate aged tissues » 

19:25 – 19:40  Liz Parrish “Gene therapy to reduce the effects of aging”

19:40 – 19:55 Justin Rebo (BioAge)  “Reversing immune aging to treat COVID-19 and other diseases: from discovery to the clinic”

19:55 – 20:00 Martin Lipovšek “Slovenian Levine clock project”

20:00 – 20:10 Edouard Debonneuil « Of mice and men: from the Major Mouse Testing Program to the Major Human Testing Program »

20:10 – 20:20 Pause

3. From rats to humans and the other way around? Legal, scientific, technical, and political aspects concerning Clinical tests 

20:20 – 20:35 The science, aging clocks and clinical applications.  Alexander Zhavoronkov

20:35 – 20:50 . How to  accelerate. Legal, scientific, technical and political aspects Didier Coeurnelle

20:50 – 21:05. Have the anti-aging interventions worked? Some lessons from the history of anti-aging experiments on animals and humans. Ilia Stambler 

21:05 – 21:15 Pause

4. Discussion about the 3 themes in 3 groups. Goal: one page of thoughts and proposals for each group

21:15 – 22:00 Divided in 3 zoom spaces

Rats Chair Mike Conboy and Marion
Human tests Chair Aubrey de Grey
Political aspects Alexander and Didier

5. Conclusion and goodbye


The next day, Friday, February 12 (8 – 9.30 PM CET)
Finalization of the 3 texts of thoughts and proposals (discussion online)

Same Zoom link.