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.
This brief recap video features comments from keynote speaker Andrea Britta Maier, MD, PhD, from the Centre for Healthy Longevity Life Sciences Institute at the National University of Singapore, and members of the UR Aging Institute, the URMC Department of Medicine, Geriatrics/Aging, and the UR Department of Biology.
2025 Aging Research Day
October 24, 2025
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
University of Rochester Hosts Aging Research Day 2025
In October, the University of Rochester hosted Aging Research Day, an annual event that brings together investigators from the University’s River Campus and Medical Center.