ARDD 2025 Main Track

Program
August 25
Monday
08:00 - 09:00 (CET)
Registrations, coffee, tea
09:00 - 09:15 (CET)
Opening remarks
David Dreyer Lassen, Rector of the University of Copenhagen
09:30 - 20:00 (CET)
Ceremonial Hall
09:10 - 18:20 (CET)
Munk Cellar
August 26
Tuesday
08:00 - 09:00 (CET)
Registrations, coffee, tea
09:00 - 09:10 (CET)
Welcoming remark by chairs
Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, University of Copenhagen
Daniela Bakula, University of Copenhagen
Alex Zhavoronkov, Insilico Medicine
09:00 - 18:20 (CET)
Munk Cellar
09:10 - 09:30 (CET)
Morten Meldal, University of Copenhagen
09:30 - 09:50 (CET)
Jean-Marc Lemaitre, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biotherapies of Montpellier
09:50 - 10:10 (CET)
Juan Carlos Belmonte, Altos Labs
10:10 - 10:30 (CET)
Coffee break
10:30 - 10:50 (CET)
Thomas Rando, University of California Los Angeles
10:50 - 11:10 (CET)
Life Biosciences
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Sharon Rosenzweig-Lipson
11:10 - 11:30 (CET)
Michela Deleidi, Institut Imagine
11:30 - 13:00 (CET)
Lunch
13:00 - 13:20 (CET)
Tuomas Tammela, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
13:20 - 13:40 (CET)
Aptah Bio Inс.
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Rafael Bottos
13:40 - 14:00 (CET)
Miriam Merad, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York
14:00 - 14:20 (CET)
Coffee break
14:20 - 14:40 (CET)
Riekelt Houtkooper, University of Amsterdam
14:40 - 15:00 (CET)
Maxwell Biosciences
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Edward Rudnic
15:00 - 15:20 (CET)
Jackie Han, University of Copenhagen
15:20 - 16:00 (CET)
Coffee break and poster session
16:00 - 16:20 (CET)
Alexey Terskikh, Harry Perkins Institute & University of Western Australia
16:20 - 16:40 (CET)
TruDiagnostic
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Ryan Smith
16:40 - 17:00 (CET)
Steve Horvath, RWTH Aachen University
17:00 - 17:20 (CET)
Steve Horvath, Altos Labs
17:20 - 17:40 (CET)
Coffee break
17:40 - 18:40 (CET)
Pharma panel
18:40 (CET)
Dinner
19:00 (CET)
Gala Dinner
(for speakers only) sponsored by LongeVC and the LSF
August 27
Wednesday
08:00 - 09:00 (CET)
Registrations, coffee, tea
09:00 - 09:10 (CET)
Welcome!
09:00 - 17:30 (CET)
09:10 - 09:30 (CET)
Rafael de Cabo, National Institute on Aging
09:30 - 09:50 (CET)
Repair Biotechnologies
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Mourad Topors
09:50 - 10:10 (CET)
Dudley Lamming, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:10 - 10:30 (CET)
Break
10:30 - 10:50 (CET)
Lykke Sylow, University of Copenhagen
10:50 - 11:10 (CET)
Rejuvenate Biomed
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Jeroen Aerssens
11:10 - 11:30 (CET)
Luigi Ferrucci, National Institute on Aging
11:30 - 13:00 (CET)
Lunch
13:00 - 13:20 (CET)
Eric Verdin, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
13:20 - 13:40 (CET)
Marissa Schafer, Mayo Clinic
13:40 - 14:00 (CET)
Andrei Seluanov, University of Rochester
14:00 - 14:20 (CET)
Coffee break
14:20 - 14:35 (CET)
Andy Poyi Tsai, Stanford University
14:35 - 14:50 (CET)
Christiane Volbracht, Lundbeck
14:50 - 15:05 (CET)
Javier Maria Peralta Ramos, Washington University in Saint Louis
15:05 - 15:20 (CET)
Short talk selected from abstracts
15:20 - 16:00 (CET)
Coffee break and poster session
16:00 - 16:20 (CET)
Evandro Fang, University of Oslo
16:20 - 16:40 (CET)
Ethan Liu, Westlake University
16:40 - 17:00 (CET)
Ana Maria Cuervo, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
17:00 - 17:20 (CET)
Coffee break
17:20 - 17:40 (CET)
Molecule
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Paul Kohlhaas
17:40 - 18:00 (CET)
Infinita City
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Niklas Anzinger
18:00 - 18:20 (CET)
Thalion
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Todd White
18:20 - 19:00 (CET)
Dinner
19:00-19:20 (CET)
Michael Levitt, Stanford University
19:20-19:40 (CET)
Insilico Medicine
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Insilico Medicine
19:40-20:00 (CET)
LongeVC, Switzerland
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Sergey Jakimov
20:00-20:15 (CET)
Break
20:15-20:55 (CET)
Investor Panel-Early Stage
21:00-21:40 (CET)
Investor Panel-Growth Stage
August 28
Thursday
08:00 - 09:00 (CET)
Registrations, coffee, tea
09:00 − 09:10 (CET)
Welcome!
09:10 - 09:30 (CET)
Tony Wyss-Coray, Stanford University
09:30 - 09:50 (CET)
Retro Biosciences
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Joe Betts-LaCroix
09:50 - 10:10 (CET)
Lida Katsimpardi, Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Biotherapies, IRMB
09:00 - 12:00 (CET)
Start up Pitch
Munks' Cellar
10:10 - 10:30 (CET)
Coffee break
10:30 - 10:50 (CET)
Vadim Gladyshev, Harvard Medical School
10:50 - 11:10 (CET)
Accelerated Biosciences
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Yuta Lee
11:10 - 11:30 (CET)
Marco Demaria, European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing
11:30 - 13:00 (CET)
Lunch
13:00 - 13:20 (CET)
Brian Kennedy, National University of Singapore
13:20 - 13:40 (CET)
L'Oréal Research & Innovation
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Elias Bou Samra
13:40 - 14:00 (CET)
Nathan Le Brasseur, Mayo Clinic
14:00 - 14:20 (CET)
Coffee break
14:20 − 14:35 (CET)
Ben Shenhar, Weizmann Institute of Science
14:35 − 14:50 (CET)
Zane Koch, University of California San Diego
14:50 − 15:05 (CET)
In Hwa Jang, University of Minnesota
15:05 − 15:20 (CET)
Weilan Wang, National University of Singapore
15:20 - 16.00 (CET)
Coffee break and poster session
16:00 - 16:20 (CET)

Collin Ewald, Novartis Biomedical Research Diseases of Aging and Regenerative Medicine, Switzerland

16:20 - 16:40 (CET)
Haut.AI, Estonia
Sponsor talk - with gratitude

Anastasia Georgievskaya

16:40 - 17:00 (CET)
Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
17:00 - 17:20 (CET)
Coffee break
17:20 - 17:40 (CET)
Laura Niedernhofer, University of Minnesota Medical School, USA
17:40 - 18:00 (CET)
Mitra Bio, UK
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Cristiana Banila
18:00 - 18:20 (CET)
Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna, IFOM, IGM-CNR
18:20 - 19:00 (CET)
Dinner
19:00-19:20 (CET)
Marta Guasch-Ferré, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
19:20 - 19:40 (CET)
Peter Mullen, University of Southern California, USA
19:40 - 20:00 (CET)
John Newman, Buck Institute, US
20:00 - 20:20 (CET)
Break
20:20 - 21:00 (CET)
Pharma Panel
August 29
Friday
08:00 - 09:00 (CET)
Registrations, coffee, tea
09:00 − 09:10 (CET)
Welcome and Poster Award ceremony
09:10 - 09:30 (CET)
Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Novo Nordisk, Denmark
09:30 - 09:50 (CET)
BioAge
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
BioAge
09:50 - 10:10 (CET)
Steve Austad, University of Alabama Birmingham, USA
10:10 - 10:30 (CET)
Coffee break
10:30 - 10:50 (CET)
Charlotte Suetta, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
10:50 - 11:10 (CET)
XPRIZE Healthspan
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Jamie Justice
11:10 - 11:30 (CET)
Bente Klarlund Pedersen, Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Denmark
11:30 - 13:00 (CET)
Lunch and Startup Award ceremony
13:00 - 13:20 (CET)
Dario Riccardo Valenzano, Leibniz Institute on Aging, Germany
13:20 - 13:40 (CET)
Deep Origin, USA
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Michael Antonov
13:40 - 14:00 (CET)
Emma Teeling, University College Dublin, Ireland
14:00 - 14:20 (CET)
Coffee break
14:20 − 14:35 (CET)
Short talk selected from abstracts
Kazuto Kawamura, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
14:35 − 14:50 (CET)
Tomaz Rozmaric, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Traumatology in Vienna
14:50 − 15:05 (CET)
Andrea Heinz, University of Copenhagen
15:05 − 15:20 (CET)
Martin Borch Jensen, Gordian Biotechnology
15:20 - 16.00 (CET)
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20 (CET)
Björn Schumacher, University of Cologne
16:20 - 16:40 (CET)
Rejuve.Bio
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Kennedy Schaal
16:40 - 17:00 (CET)
Jan Hoeijmakers, CECAD, University of Cologne and the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology in Utrecht
17:00 - 17:20 (CET)
Coffee break
17:20 - 17:40 (CET)
Anna Murray, University of Exeter
17:40 - 18:00 (CET)
Gero
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Peter Fedichev
18:00 - 18:20 (CET)
Yousin Suh, Columbia University
18:20 - 19:00 (CET)
Dinner
19:00 - 19:20 (CET)
Insilico Medicine
Sponsor talk - with gratitude
Alex Zhavoronkov
19:20 - 19:40 (CET)
Andrew Adams, Eli Lilly and Company
19:40 - 20:00 (CET)
Anne Brunet, Stanford University
20:00-20:10 (CET)
Wrap up