Agenda
Subject to minor changes, talk titles forthcoming.
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2026
8:15 am
9:00 am
9:10 am
9:30 am
10:05 am
10:25 am
10:40 am
11:00 am
11:20 am
11:40 am
12:00 am
12:05 pm
1:00 pm
1:05pm
1:40 pm
2:00 pm
2:20 pm
2:40 pm
3:20 pm
4:20 pm
5:00 pm
Coffee & Networking
Salah Mahmoudi, PhD (Longevity Global)
Opening Remarks
Bérénice Benayoun, PhD (USC) – Systemic impacts and regulation of ovarian aging
Steve Horvath, PhD (Altos Labs) – Recent Advances in Epigenetic Clocks
Joshua Johnson, PhD (CU-Anschutz, LifeAhead) – Stochastic processes in (female reproductive) aging
Break
Shasha Jumbe, PhD (Level 42AI) – What’s Your Vibe? Find Your Body’s Optimal Playlist. Extend Your Healthspan.
Matthew Shtrahman (UCSD) – AAV-Induced CNS Toxicity – A Novel Model of Sporadic Neurodegeneration
Erin Gibson, PhD (Stanford) – Temporal changes in metabolism drive oligodendroglial dysregulation in aging
Brad Younggren, MD (Circulate Health) – From Research to Clinic: Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in the Longevity Era
JellyFish DAO – Cinema Teaser
Showings available in Theater Room
Catered Lunch
Greetings from Our Sponsor – Zuber Lawler
Eric Verdin, MD PhD (Buck Institute, Napa Tx) – CD38 and NAD metabolism
Karl Pfleger, PhD (AgingBiotech.info) – FDA Approvals of Aging Therapies Have Started & More Are Coming Soon
Salah Mahmoudi, PhD (ReneuBio) – Better decisions. Better drugs. Better outcomes.
Frederick Beddingfield, MD, PhD (Rubedo Life Sciences) – A Clinical Study of a Novel Senolytic in Skin: Rubedo Life Sciences’ RLS-1496, a GPX4 modulator out of in-house AI enabled drug discovery
Emerging Longevity Investors
Tom Zuber (Moderator), Heather Koshinsky (Berkeley SkyDeck), Manish Chamoli (LongGame), Julio de Unamuno IV (SDVC), Gabriel Cien (2060 Foundation)
Pitch Competition
1. David Scieszka, PhD (Vertical Longevity Pharma)
2. Christopher Shen, PhD (Aleutian Therapeutics)
3. Amir Kiani, PhD (Genexgen)
4. Lauren Carnevale, PhD (Torrion)
5. Carter Palmer, PhD (Third Element Bio)
6. Irit Rappley, PhD (NNP Laboratories)
7. Ben Blue, PhD (Ora Biomedical)
8. Thomas Butler (BioRevolution)
Founder x Investor Fireside Chat
Hanadie Yousef, PhD (Juvena Tx),
Sonia Setayesh, PhD (Civilization Ventures)
Ronjon Nag, PhD (R42, Stanford, Agemica)
Wine and Hors d’oeuvres
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Thursday, March 12th, 2026
Subject to minor changes, talk titles forthcoming.
8:15 am
9:00 am
9:05 am
9:40 am
10:00 am
10:20 am
10:40 am
11:00 am
11:20 am
11:45 pm
12.30 pm
1.30 pm
2:05 pm
2:25 pm
2:45 pm
3:00 pm
3:20 pm
3:40 pm
4:20 pm
Coffee & Networking
Salah Mahmoudi, PhD (Longevity Global)
Opening Remarks
Jeanne Loring, PhD (Scripps, Aspen Neuroscience) – Repairing the brain: neuron replacement for Parkinson’s disease
Ashley Webb, PhD (Buck Institute, Bolden Tx) – Molecular mechanisms of brain aging and neurodegeneration
Lauren Booth, PhD (Calico) – The Role of the Integrated Stress Response in Age-Related Disease
Break
Vittorio Sebastiano, PhD (UC Irvine, TurnBio) – Nuclear Reprogramming and Immune Aging
Pinchas Cohen, MD (USC) – Mitochondrial Microproteins and thier Role in Longevity
Amit Sharma, PhD (Lifespan Research Institute) – Targeting Lysosomal Stress Adaptation: A Druggable Vulnerability in Senescent Cells
Panel – The Longevity Conversation
Chris Patil, Moderator (BioAge Labs), Brenda Eap, (A4LI), Daniel Sollinger (JellyFish Dao), Christin Glorioso (NeuroAge), Peter Mathiesen (Iduna Capital)
Catered Lunch
Mike Snyder, PhD (Stanford, Personalis, January AI) – Monitoring Health and Aging Using Deep Data and Remote Monitoring
Aladdin H. Shadyab, PhD (UCSD) – Slowing the Clock: Longevity Science Meets Alzheimer’s Prevention
Christin Glorioso, MD PhD (NeuroAge)– Reversing brain aging to prevent dementia
Break
Anthony Molina, PhD (UCSD) – Evaluating Clinical and Molecular Signatures of Healthy Longevity Interventions: A partnership between UCSD and XPRIZE
Dorothea Portius, PhD (Nutrition Scientist) – From Hype to Nutritional Biochemistry: Why Most Longevity Products Fail and How to Make Them Work
Panel – “Ask a Longevity Doctor”
Christin Glorioso, MD PhD Moderator (NeuroAge), Alison Moore, MD MPH, Alan Alexander, MD, Krista Ramonas, MD, Sunjya Schweig, MD
Wine and Hors d’oeuvres