The Future of Human Healthspan Demography, Evolution, Medicine, and Bioengineering: Task Group Summaries (2008) / Chapter Skim
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The independence we have spent a great deal of our lives finding could be gone in just a short period of time. The elusive nature of the aging process and finding new ways of addressing human healthspan brought more than 150 experts and researchers from public and private institutions across the nation and around the globe to the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California.
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While considering serious issues in aging and healthspan with regard to scientific research and methods, there was a lot of laughter among participants, which created an environment of ease while promoting a place of intuitive, unrestricted thinking. The conference keynote address was given by Michael Merzenich,
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Meeting for roughly nine hours in total over two and a half days, each group tackled the challenges and questions presented to them and developed scientific plans. Groups explored topics such as • the relationship between demographic mortality rates, aging, and functional human healthspan; • the effects of exercise on human healthspan; • the cellular and molecular mechanisms of biological aging; • inflammation's effects on aging; and • changes in social context to enhance functional status of the elderly.
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Zimmer also has a science blog hosted by Seed magazine called "The Loom." For the television and radio category, host and producer Jad Abumrad, cohost Robert Krulwich, and senior producer Ellen Horne were presented with an award for their work on Radio Lab's "Where Am I? " and "Musical Language," exemplary examples of making science accessible to general audiences.
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The initiative offers grants to all participants of the conference to encourage innovative thinking and new projects among those who choose to collaborate with one another. Applicants for these grants can get up to $100,000 for their suggested projects, and NAKFI plans to award up to $1 million for research related to human healthspan.
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