A Capitol Hill Symposium & Luncheon
September 12, 2006
Hart Senate Office Building, #902
At this international gathering organized by the Alliance for Aging Research, prominent scientists called for governments and health care organizations worldwide to invest in the extension of healthy human life in order to produce a "Longevity Dividend" for nations with aging populations.
Read the statement released by the group of more than 90 scientists.
III. International Perspectives
Alex Kalache, Director, Ageing and Health Program, World Health Organization (WHO) - SLIDES
James Goodwin, PhD, Head of Research, Help the Aged, London, England - SLIDES
IV. View to the Future
Dr. Alan Leshner, CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
I. How Soon Before Science Can Slow Aging and at What Cost?
Opening Remarks from:
Senator Larry Craig (R-ID),
S. Jay Olshansky, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago - SLIDES
Leonard Guarante, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - SLIDES
В 1970-е годы (когда основывали Национальный институт старения) осознали (в Конгрессе): многие болезни, изучение которых тогда щедро финансировали (рак, сердечно-сосудистые), связаны со старением населения. Поэтому, если лучше изучить старение, возможно, будет легче справиться и с этими болезнями (2:38 в видео).
Stephen Coles, M.D., Ph.D., is the Director and a co-founder of the Gerontology
Research Group in Los Angeles. He is a stem-cell researcher in the Department of Surgery at the
UCLA Geffen School of Medicine. In addition, he has organized a lecture series in gerontology
for the past 12 years.
Dr. Steven Kaye, M.D., and I
co-founded the GRG during the spring of 1990. We met once a month for about six months in
each other’s homes and along the way wrote a Charter, or Mission Statement, for the
group, describing what we wanted to see done in our lifetimes in the field of Anti-Aging
Medicine.
in January of 1991, was our first
formal lecture, and since then we have had at least one
lecture per month for the past 12 years (including
Summers) — 154 lectures and still going strong! In
retrospect, our presenters have included world-famous
researchers in gerontology. We videotaped each lecture
and now have an extensive library of VHS tapes.
For any given lecture, 15 to 20 persons typically
attend. About half the lectures are clinical in nature,
while the other half focus on the basic sciences (or
sometimes on engineering instrumentation), in which
we talk about the chemistry and physics of molecular
processes in the body. About half of our members are
Ph.D.’s and about a quarter are M.D.’s.
Today, the Los Angeles Gerontology
Research
Group consists of about 160 members: we have also
founded Chapters in other cities, such as Washington,
D.C. and New York City. About six years ago, we
established a website (www.grg.org)
President-elect Barack Obama's reported choice for Surgeon General is a neurosurgeon and CNN medical reporter who's written favorably about radical life extension methods