The 1st Sheba Longevity Conference

Reception and Welcome (Exhibition Area)

Opening ceremony of public academic hospital longevity center at Sheba hospital

8:45-8:55 – Prof. Tzipora Strauss, Head of the Sheba longevity center

• Prof. Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, MD, University Hospital Renji, Jiatong School of Medicine / Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Director of Sheba Longevity Longevity Center

8:55-9:10 – Ravit Baer, Consul General of Israel in Shanghai

9:10-9:40 – Speech by a special guest of honor

9:40-9:50 – Prof. Yitshak Kreiss, Director of the Sheba Medical Center

Coffee break

Session 1: Geoscience to clinic – Moving from healthy aging research to clinical practice

10:20-10:50 – Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Senolytics: The Path to Translation

• James Kirkland​ MD, PhD, Noaber Foundation Professor of Aging Research, Mayo Clinic; President, American Federation for Aging Research

10:50-11:20 – How to die old in a very young age?

• Prof. Nir Barzilai, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

11:20-11:50 – Maintaining healthy longevity by SIRT6

• Prof. Haim Cohen, The Goodman faculty of life sciences, Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan university, Israel

11:50-12:20 – Caloric Restriction: From Calories to Fasting Times

• Prof. Rafael de Cabo, NIA-NIH, USA

Session 2: Global Longevity – International Collaborations, Foundations and Societies in Longevity
Moderated Panel Debate: Prof. Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, MD, University Hospital Renji, Jiatong School of Medicine / Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Director of Sheba Longevity Longevity Center

• Her Excellency Dr. Maryam Matar, Undersecretary, UAE Ministry of Health, UAE Genetic Diseases Association
• Prof. Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of public health services at the Israeli Health Ministry
• Prof. Wenbin Li, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, vice president of the National Health Care Big Data Research Institute, China
• Dr. Christine Huang Yuan, HK Longevity Medical Center and HK Quantum AI Lab
• Brenda Kgomotsego Ramokopelwa, CEO TAFFD’s, Co-Founder Afrolongevity, South Africa
• Dr. Wei-Wu He, PhD, MBA Executive Chairman and CEO of Human Longevity, China
• Prof. Andrea Maier, Oon Chiew Seng Professor, Co-Director Centre for Healthy Longevity, National University of Singapore; Professor of Gerontology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Lunch Break (Exhibition Area)

Sheba longevity center Vision Mission Goal Uniqueness

• Prof. Tzipora Strauss, Head of the Sheba longevity center
• Prof. Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, MD, University Hospital Renji, Jiatong School of Medicine / Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Director of Sheba Longevity Longevity Center

Session 3: Longevity technology to longevity clinic

14:15-14:45 – Stem cell aging: From basic science to lifestyle interventions for rejuvenation

• Prof. Thomas Rando, director of Broad Stem Cell Research Center, University of California Los Angeles, USA

14:45-15:15 – A case study of the application of Pharma.AI platform for discovery and development of dual-purpose therapeutics targeting aging and disease

• Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, Founder and CEO, Insilico Medicine

15:15-15:45 – A Novel DNA Methylation Clock Resilient to Changes in Immune Composition

• Prof. Eric Verdin, MD, CEO & President, Buck Institute, USA

15:45-16:15 – Longevity medicine therapeutics: applied geroprotective interventions, drug repurposing and discovery, RCTs.

• Dr. Joan Mannick, Co-Founder and CEO, Tornado Therapeutics

Winners of the Poster award competition and short presentions

Gathering (Exhibition Area)

Session 1: Longevity medicine – Practicing longevity medicine

8:30-9:00 – Evidence based interventions to prolong health and lifespan in humans

• Prof. Andrea Maier, Oon Chiew Seng Professor, Co-Director Centre for Healthy Longevity, National University of Singapore; Professor of Gerontology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

9:00-9:20 – What is needed to translate geroscience into the clinic?

• Prof. Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, MD, University Hospital Renji, Jiatong School of Medicine / Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Director of Sheba Longevity Longevity Center

9:20-9:35 – Longevity practice and education

• Prof. Sara Bonnes, Mayo clinic, USA

Session 2: Longevity – academia, education and the public
Moderated Panel Debate: Prof. Tzipora Strauss, Head of the Sheba Longevity Center

• Prof. Karen Avraham, Dean of Faculty of Medicine, TAU, Israel
• Prof. Shulamit Michaeli, Vice President of Bar-Ilan university ,Israel
• Dr. Rony Schenker PhD, Director of knowledge development and research, JDC-Eshel, Israel
• Dr. Ilia Stambler, PhD, Vetek (Seniority) Association – the Movement for Longevity and Quality of Life, Israel
• Garri Zmudze – Longevity Science Foundation, Miami / Switzerland

Coffee break

Session 3: Longevity innovations and facts – The what and why

10:45-11:15 – The regenerative effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy

• Shai Efrati, director of the Sagol center for hyperbaric medicine and research, Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center, Israel

11:15-11:45 – Extracellular matrix homeostasis and healthy longevity: Mechanistic insights, translational, and medical opportunities

• Prof. Collin Ewald, Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland

11:45-12:15 – Evidence of enhancing brain function using unique technologies

• Prof. Amir Amedi, founding director of The Baruch Ivcher Institute For Brain, Cognition & Technology & The Ruth and Meir Rosental Brain Imaging Center. Reichmann university, Israel

12:15-12:45 – Does green-MED diet promote longevity ? The DIRECT PLUS trial

• Prof. Iris Shai, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Ben-Gurion University and Harvard University, USA

12:45-13:15 – Back to the Future – Nutrition in 2050

• Dana Weiner, director division of nutrition, Sheba medical center, Israel

Lunch Break

Continuing Session 3: Longevity innovations and facts – The what and why

14:15-14:45 – Leveraging technology for healthy aging with diabetes

• Prof. Tali Cukierman-Yaffe , Head of the Centre for Successful Aging with Diabetes at the Sheba Medical Center, Head of the Endocrinology & Diabetes Service for women and pregnancy, Sheba medical center, Israel

14:45-15:15 – Personalized medicine based on deep human phenotyping

• Prof. Eran Segal, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

15:15-15:45 – Loss of hormones with age and their importance for longevity

• Prof. Jaron Rabinovici, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sheba medical center, School of public health Tel-Aviv University

15:45-16:05 – “A never too late attitude” – nutrition and longevity among the oldest old

• Dr. Abigail Goshen , Head of research and development, Sheba Longevity Center, Israel

Session 4: “Innovationstry” – Innovation industry and Venture capital Moderated Panel Debate
Moderator: Prof. Eyal Zimlichman, Chief Transformation Officer and Chief Innovation Officer at Sheba Medical Center. Director and Founder of ARC Innovation

• Sergey Jakimov – Founding partner of LongeVC
• Dr. Noam Maoz – Chief Technology Officer of Centarix
• Dr. Rob Konrad – Co-Founder and Chief Operation Officer of Biolytica
• Dr. Gil Blander – Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of InsideTracker
• Nikolina Lauc – Co-Founder and Chief Operation Officer of GlycanAge

Closing Ceremony

• Prof. Tzipora Strauss, Head of the Sheba longevity center
• Prof. Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, MD, University Hospital Renji, Jiatong School of Medicine / Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Director of Sheba Longevity Longevity Center