WHAT: Inauguration Ceremony and Conference to Launch the International Research Center on Aging and Cancer
WHEN: Friday, December 18, 2020 (Thursday, December 17 – United States)
WHERE: Haikou, Hainan – China (Livestream via Zoom)
WHY: The New York-based SWCRF will formally launch the International Center for Aging and Cancer (ICAC) in Hainan, China, in an inauguration ceremony and conference next week with presentations by research investigators tackling aging as the single biggest risk factor for cancer.
The SWCRF, Hainan Medical University, and Ruijin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine have joined forces to found ICAC, which will be an academic research center promoting basic, translational, and clinical research to reduce the increasing global burden of cancer as a disease of aging.
Since 2015, the SWCRF spearheaded a renewed focus on aging and cancer, and in 2018 partnered with the National Cancer Institute and National Institute on Aging for a two-year, $3 million intramural and extramural research collaborations. Last year, the SWCRF partnered with Wiley to publish a new scientific journal titled “Aging and Cancer” that advances research breakthroughs and thought leadership around aging and cancer.
ICAC will hold the inauguration ceremony on Friday, December 18, 2020, in Haikou, a city in Hainan province, along with an international conference featuring prominent scientists in the field of aging and cancer. The conference will be televised live via Zoom and will feature:
December 17, 7:45 PM (EST)
Samuel Waxman, M.D.
CEO and Founder of the SWCRF, Distinguished Service Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Honorary Professor,
December 17, 8:30 PM (EST)
James DeGregori, Ph.D. (SWCRF-funded investigator, 2020)
Professor and Chair in Lung Cancer Research at the University of Colorado
December 17, 9:00 PM (EST)
Ross Levine, M.D. (SWCRF-funded investigator, 2020)
Chair in Leukemia Research; Chief, Molecular Cancer Medicine Service, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
December 17, 9:30 PM (EST)
Ashani Weeraratna, Ph.D.
Chair, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
December 17, 10:00 PM (EST)
Brian Kennedy, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Physiology at National University of Singapore
December 17, 10:30 PM (EST)
Judith Campisi, Ph.D.
Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Other presenters include Inigo Martincorena, Ph.D., Group Leader at, Sanger Institute; Maria Blasco, Ph.D., Director Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CINO); and Hartmut Geiger, Ph.D., Director and Professor at the Institute for Molecular Medicine and Stem Cell Aging at Ulm University; and Ruibao Ren, M.D., Ph.D., Director at Shanghai Institute of Hematology.
Contact Jesse Dean at 646-398-5261 or [email protected] for more information and to obtain a link to the conference.
