The international scientific community concludes in Valencia that aging can be modified with timely action
Lengthening healthy life and preventing functional depletion in old age require a multidisciplinary intervention and specific public policies. The second edition of the Longevity World Forum has also served to demonstrate that breakthroughs in life expectancy require engineering and technology.
Longevity World Forum confirms Valencia as its venue in 2019
The first conference on longevity in Europe will once again make Valencia the world scientific capital. This global meeting will be held for the second time on 13 and 14 November at the city’s conference centre.
The scientific community shared a “tsunami of knowledge” on healthy ageing at the Longevity World Forum
The first conference in Europe on increased life expectancy and life quality improvement has brought together over 400 participants to Valencia. The organizers have confirmed that a second edition will be held in November 2019.
Longevity World Forum completes its programme for 2019 with a symposium at the Príncipe Felipe Research Centre
The doctors María Blasco and Pura Muñoz will be two of the speakers of this conference dedicated to aging and metabolism. The event will take place on Wednesday 13 November at the facilities of the Príncipe Felipe Research Centre.
The debate over precision medicine and biotechnology puts the final touch on the first edition of the Longevity World Forum
On the second and final day of the Longevity World Forum, the conference turned its focus towards two disciplines which are fundamental to guarantee a longer and better life expectancy: precision medicine and biotechnology.
The scientific community proposes a different approach to ageing at the Longevity World Forum
Leading figures such as Ángela Nieto or María Blasco have shared new key facts about human longevity from the perspective of different disciplines in the first conference in Europe focused on life expectancy and life quality improvement from a purely scientific approach.
Research for a longer and better life expectancy focuses on Valencia
The first Longevity World Forum starts in the Valencia Conference Centre, where leading figures in the international scientific community will come together for two days to share knowledge about longevity from the perspective of disciplines such as precision medicine and genomic medicine.
Manuel Serrano: “I don’t know how to use the word immortality. I don’t see any point in talking about something so intangible”
Manuel Serrano is internationally recognised in the field of tumour suppression. In addition to his discovery of the p16 gene, one of his most important discoveries has been the identification of cellular senescence as a main anti-oncogenic response. In this the second edition of Longevity World Forum, he will share his extensive experience, as well as the advances on which he is currently working at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona).
Aubrey de Grey announces that age-reversing medication will be a reality in five years from now
De Grey will visit Spain in November to participate in the first edition of the Longevity World Forum in Valencia. The biomedical gerontologist also predicts that longevity treatments will be accessible to all citizens.
Life expectancy and healthy ageing, under debate in Spain at the Longevity World Forum
The second edition of this congress, which is breaking new ground in Europe, will take place on 14 and 15 November in the Palacio de Congresos Conference Centre in Valencia and will bring together some of the world’s most renowned professionals, such as Rafael de Cabo, Manuel Serrano and Álvaro Pascual-Leone.