LIF 2026 Conference Schedule


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