Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), Fourth Conference

You are cordially invited to participate in the fourth "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) conference", which will be held from 3-7 September 2009 at Queens' College, Cambridge. Registration and abstract submission will open around Christmas and will be available at the Conference Website

Description : "SENS4 is the fourth in a unique series of conferences that brings together researchers and laypeople interested in research leading to the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging. Since aging affects the body at all levels of organisation, a large number of otherwise unrelated disciplines are represented, including stem cells, immunotherapy, cancer, neurodegeneration, gene therapy and tissue engineering."

SENS conference series, like all the SENS initiatives (such as the journal "Rejuvenation Research and the Mprize"), aims at tackling postponing the problem (human aging) not seeking elusive and probably illusory magic bullets, but instead enumerating the accumulating molecular and cellular changes that eventually kill us and identifying ways to repair -- reverse -- those changes, rather than merely to slow down their further accumulation.

The meeting will comprise invited talks, short oral presentations of submitted abstracts, and poster sessions. There will be no concurrent sessions. Talks will take place in the Fitzpatrick Lecture Hall. Poster sessions will take place each evening in the conservatory adjacent to the bar, with the customary free alcohol.

The conference will also feature the traditional punting on the Cam: an hour on the Backs for the faint-hearted and an afternoon or evening trip to Grantchester for the rest of us.

All questions should be directed to the  Conference organiser :  Dr. Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey (aubrey@sens.org )