Conference History

2025
The 14th annual conference was hosted by Mayo Clinic Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging and held in Florida. Conference theme: From Mechanisms to Medicine.

2022
The meeting was hosted by the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging. Conference theme: A Covid-delayed New Decade of Translational Research for Healthy Aging.

2019
The 10th annual meeting in 2019 was hosted by Newcastle University.
Conference theme: From Mice to Humans.

2018
The conference, titled “Molecular Mechanisms of Organ System Crosstalk and Failure with Aging,” was held in Rochester, Minnesota, and hosted by the Mayo Clinic Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging.

2017
The University Medical Center Groningen hosted the very successful 8th Annual Conference, Metabolism and Ageing.

2016
The conference was unexpectedly canceled due to the landfall of Hurricane Mathew, just days ahead of the scheduled conference.

2015
Newcastle University Institute for Ageing teamed up with Coimbra University to support the creation of a new Multidisciplinary Institute for Ageing at Coimbra, Portugal. The Alliance welcomed collaboration with Newcastle/Coimbra, which hosted the 6th Annual Conference on Interventions to Slow Down Ageing at Slaley Hall in the North of England in November 2015.

2014
The conference title in Rochester, Minnesota, was Frailty and Healthspan: Bench to Bedside to Home.

2013
The conference topic in Groningen was on Molecular Mechanisms of Age-Related Multi Morbidity.

2012
The conference was held back at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota with the conference topic Senescence and Healthspan.

2011
The second meeting was held in Groningen, entitled Healthy Aging and Independent Living: Countering Frailty and Maintaining Independence.

2010
The first meeting, The Next Step in Aging Research: From Bench to Bedside: A Forum for Collaboration between Clinicians and Researchers, focused on the basic biology of aging and its relationship to clinical practice. This meeting was held in Red Wing, MN (USA).