12th Annual Alliance for Healthy Aging Conference

?2022 ? A COVID Delayed New Decade of Translational Research for Healthy Aging?

We invite you to join us for the 12th Annual Alliance for Healthy Aging Conference! This conference will be hosted by the University of Minnesota on October 13-15, 2022 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Alliance for Healthy Aging was founded by The Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota, USA) and from the Netherlands, the University Medical Center Groningen (Groningen), the University of Groningen, the Noaber Foundation (Lunteren) and Vita Valley (Ede). It is holding a series of annual meetings dedicated to translational research on aging with the objective to bring together scientists, clinicians, engineers, providing a forum for the exchange of ideas.

In June 2010, the first meeting, The Next Step in Aging Research: From Bench to Bedside: A Forum for Collaboration between Clinicians and Researchers, focused on the basic biology of aging and its relationship to clinical practice. It was a resounding success. In October 2011, the second meeting was held in Groningen, entitled Healthy Aging and Independent Living: Countering Frailty and Maintaining Independence. In November 2012, the conference was held back at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota with the conference topic Senescence and Healthspan. The 2013 conference topic in Groningen was on Molecular Mechanisms of Age-Related Multi Morbidity, and the 2014 conference title in Rochester was Frailty and Healthspan: Bench to Bedside to Home. In 2015, Newcastle University Institute for Ageing teamed up with Coimbra University to support the creation of a new Multidisciplinary Institute for Ageing at Coimbra, Portugal. The Alliance welcomed collaboration with Newcastle/Coimbra, which hosted the 6th Annual Conference on Interventions to Slow Down Ageing at Slaley Hall in the North of England in November 2015. In 2016, the conference was unexpectedly cancelled due to landfall of Hurricane Mathew, just days ahead of the scheduled conference. In 2017, the University Medical Center Groningen hosted the very successful 8th Annual Conference, Metabolism and Ageing. In 2018, the conference was titled Molecular Mechanisms of Organ System Crosstalk and Failure with Aging, held in Rochester, MN. The 10th annual meeting in 2019 was hosted by Newcastle University titled Intervention: from Mice to Humans.

This year the Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and the Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen will join the organization of the Alliance meetings. The 2022 meeting ? October 13-15 - will be hosted by the University of Minnesota. Conference theme is 2022: A Covid-delayed New Decade of Translational Research for Healthy Aging.

The meeting will foster research collaborations, act as a springboard for new research grants and directions, and accelerate the translation of scientific discoveries to clinical practice by bringing together an expert and interdisciplinary panel with unique clinical, scientific, and commercial perspectives.

The meeting will take place over two days. Sessions will be organized around key topics. Each session will have a chair and co-chair. Presentations by invited speakers will consist of a 20-minute talk including 5 minutes of discussion. To encourage participants to engage across different areas of research and focus, the meeting will not have concurrent sessions. There also will be a junior investigator session selected from submitted abstracts.