Register Early For the Third SENS Conference!
We're pleased to note that early registration is open for the third Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) conference, organized by Methuselah Foundation chair Aubrey de Grey. The conference will be held from 6-10 September 2007 at Queens' College, Cambridge, UK:
The purpose of the SENS conference series, like all the SENS initiatives (such as the journal Rejuvenation Research and the Methuselah Mouse Prize), is to expedite the development of truly effective therapies to postpone and treat human aging by tackling it as an engineering problem: not seeking elusive and probably illusory magic bullets, but instead enumerating the accumulating molecular and cellular changes that eventually kill us and identifying ways to repair -- reverse -- those changes, rather than merely to slow down their further accumulation. Almost 50 illustrious speakers are already confirmed.SENS 3 will therefore continue and extend the superlative quality of the first and second SENS conferences, held in 2003 and 2005. The calibre of those meetings can be seen from the abstracts [IABG10, SENS2], the online audio recordings of the talks [IABG10, SENS2] and most of all from the proceedings volumes, which were published as volume 1019 of the prestigious Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and as issues 9(1) and 9(2) of the high-impact (IF 8.571) journal Rejuvenation Research.
If you'd like to see more of the science behind Foundation sponsored research programs such as the LysoSENS and MitoSENS work, you should work your way through the resources above - it's fascinating stuff.