Aging Research Day Conference

Our annual Aging Research Day showcases the latest scientific advances in basic biology and clinical aging research. This full day  conference features a keynote address by a national/international aging research expert as well as highlights the groundbreaking work of our University of Rochester aging investigators.

Save the Date for 2025!

When: 
Friday, October 24, 2025

Where: 
Helen Wood Hall Auditorium and Atrium
255 Crittenden Boulevard
Rochester NY 14642

Keynote Speaker: 
Andrea Britta Maier
Centre for Healthy Longevity
Life Sciences Institute
National University of Singapore

Agenda:

10:00am - 10:20am

• Elizabeth Handley, PhD
• The impact of child maltreatment on accelerated brain aging in adulthood

10:25am - 10:45am

• Brian McGarry, PT, PhD
• The effect of nursing home staffing on care quality: evidence from employee absences

10:50am - 11:10am

• Hongbo Liu, PhD
• Noncoding variants and their regulatory impact on age-related chronic disease

11:15am - 11:35am

• Jeevisha Bajaj, PhD
• Microenvironmental regulation of age-related myeloid cancers

11:40am - 12:00pm

• Andrei Seluanov, PhD
• Repressing transposons for extending lifespan and healthspan

12:00pm - 2:00pm

• Lunch
• Poster Session

2:00pm - 3:00pm

• Keynote Talk: Andrea B. Maier, MD, PhD
• Precision geromedicine: questioning the normal

Registration Flyer

List of Poster Abstracts

Sponsors:
The University Committee for Interdisciplinary Studies (UCIS)
The University of Rochester Aging Institute (URAI)

Registration now open!

Video and Photos from the 2024 Aging Research Day

Dr. Luigi Ferrucci, NIH/NIA, of the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Aging was the keynote speaker, presenting “Aging: A Duel with Entropy.”

Dr. Ferrucci is a geriatrician and an epidemiologist who conducts research on the causal pathways leading to progressive physical and cognitive decline in older persons. In September 2002, he became the Chief of the Longitudinal Studies Section at NIA and the Director of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging. Dr. Ferrucci has made major contributions in the design of many epidemiological studies conducted in the U.S. and in Europe, including the AKEA study of Centenarians in Sardinia and the Women's Health and Aging Study. In 2002, Dr. Ferrucci refined the design of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging to focus on the Geroscience Hypothesis, which states the pace of biological aging is the root cause of many age-related chronic diseases, as well as physical and cognitive disability. He has made major contributions to the literature and is one of the most cited scientists in the field of aging. Dr. Ferrucci has been Scientific Director at NIA since May 2011.

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