June 22-23, 2005
Geffen Auditorium
Gonda Building
Rochester, MN

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ROBERT AND ARLENE KOGOD BIOLOGY OF AGING SYMPOSIUM

The Robert and Arlene Kogod Program on Aging will present its first symposium dedicated to research on aging in 2005. It will be held Wednesday, June 22 through Thursday noon, June 23 in Geffen Auditorium on the Mayo Clinic Rochester campus.

The scientific program will feature national and international speakers who will address the biology of aging from the molecular to the clinical level. It will be multidisciplinary and include Mayo Clinic faculty engaged in aging research initiatives.

Symposium Description and Objectives

The objectives of the Biology of Aging Symposium are to:

• Understand the advances in aging research
• Contemplate career opportunities in age-related research
• Participate in organ-specific disease discussions on age-related functional and physiologic decline
• Characterize the genetics of aging (as is presently known) and its impact on clinical care

To achieve these objectives, the program will explore three areas of aging research in half-day sessions. These include the Physiology of Aging, From Bench to Bedside devoted to translational research in clinical topics, and Age, Genes and the Environment.

On the first day of the symposium, the Kogod Distinguished Lecture will be given during Medical Grand Rounds. The presenter will be Nils-Goran Larsson, MD, PhD, from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

Other guest faculty will include:

Robert Rizza, M.D. and Eric Tangalos, M.D., are serving as symposium directors. Other Aging faculty members on the Program Planning Committee are Drs. Marcelline Harris, Sundeep Khosla, Sreekumaran Nair, Andre Terzic, and Arthur Williams.

Intended Audience

This symposium is targeted at those physicians, scientists, fellows, residents, students or trainees interested in aging research or the biology of aging. The contents of the program are particularly appropriate for research fellows and trainees currently engaged in aging research or who are contemplating career paths that will embrace the biology of aging.

Career development awards and a Director's Award will be presented at the Wednesday evening reception. All participants are invited to attend.

Registration

To register for the symposium, contact Matrix Meetings at matrixmeetings@charter.net for a brochure and registration form. There is no registration fee. This symposium is made possible through the generosity of Robert and Arlene Kogod.