Geroscience Summit Returns as GSA’s Commitment Grows
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Geroscience Interest Group and the National Institute on Aging are currently welcoming registrants for their Fifth Geroscience Summit, with the theme “Revisiting the Geroscience Hypothesis: Focus on Health.” GSA is a sponsor of this event.
It will take place on December 2 and 3 on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. There will also be a virtual option available on the NIH Videocast platform.
As described by NIH, “geroscience is an interdisciplinary field focused on understanding how the biological mechanisms of aging drive disease development and impact overall health. The goal of geroscience is to extend healthspan (years of life spent in good health) and prevent age-related conditions.”
The goals of the upcoming Geroscience Summit are to:
- Broadly assess the current state-of-the-science and identify key gaps in knowledge and future research directions in geroscience.
- Accelerate gerotherapeutic development by fostering communication and collaboration among a multidisciplinary group of stakeholders.
- Highlight and focus on the concept of “healthspan”, and identify tools, technologies, and research strategies that allow for more effective measurement of health across the life course.
- Develop a roadmap for geroscience research that will help guide the field over the next 3-5 years.
GSA has long supported the geroscience movement since the first summit in 2013. GSA’s The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences added a permanent Translational Geroscience section in 2023 and has a related ongoing call for papers.
And with support from NIA, GSA now leads the Geroscience Education and Training Network Collaborative, allowing us to expand awareness of geroscience and strengthen the future aging-science workforce. We are bringing together researchers, educators, and institutions to advance geroscience education, training, mentorship, and outreach.