ARDD 2025 speakers
ARDD 2025 (the 12th annual ARDD) featured 184 confirmed speakers, moderators, session chairs, and Startup Pitch judges spanning aging biology, drug discovery, AI, longevity medicine, and investment. Every entry below is extracted directly from the organizer's speakers page, with affiliation exactly as stated in the source. Alphabetized by family name.
Note on completeness: this list was extracted from the organizer's complete speakers2025 page content (not the truncated version). It does not include speakers who appear only in track/program pages without a dedicated speakers-page entry (a small number of moderators/panelists, tracked separately on /tracks/2025 and /program/2025). If a name or affiliation looks wrong, check agingpharma.org/speakers2025 directly and see /about to report a correction.
| Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Kotb Abdelmohsen | National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA |
| Omar Abudayyeh | PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Investigator, Division of Eng. in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Director of Gene Editing, MGB Gene and Cell Therapy Institute, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
| Andrew Adams | PhD, Group Vice President – Molecule Discovery, and Director of Genetic Medicines, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA |
| Jeroen Aerssens | PhD, Chief Development Officer, Rejuvenate Biomed |
| Luc Aguilar | PhD, Chief Scientific Officer Advanced Research, L'Oréal Research & Innovation |
| Alejandro Aguilera | Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus, USA |
| Uri Alon | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Michael Antonov | Deep Origin |
| Niklas Anzinger | Infinita City |
| Anthony Atala | Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine |
| Steven Austad | PhD, Scientific Director of the American Federation for Aging Research, University of Alabama Birmingham, USA |
| Neda Bagheri | Distinguished Washington Research Foundation Investigator, Departments of Biology and Chemical Engineering, University of Washington Seattle, USA |
| Daniela Bakula | University of Copenhagen |
| Cristiana Banila | Mitra Bio |
| Nir Barzilai | President The Academy for Health and Lifespan Research; Director Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA |
| Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte | PhD, Altos Labs, USA, Founding Scientist and Senior Vice President, San Diego Institute of Science |
| Marc P. Bernegger | Maximon and Longevity Investors, Switzerland |
| Joe Betts-LaCroix | CEO of Retro, USA |
| Andreas Beyer | SyBACol, CECAD, CMMC, Institute for Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne |
| Evelyne Bischof | MD, PhD, MPH, Internal medicine and oncology University Hospital Renji of Jiaotong University, Shanghai, Sheba Longevity Center, Tel Hashomer |
| Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari | MD, MPH, DrPH, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| Elena Bonfiglioli | Global Business Leader VP Healthcare, Pharma and Life Sciences Microsoft |
| Sara Bonnes | Mayo Clinic |
| Anne Brunet | Michele and Timothy Barakett Professor of Genetics, Stanford University |
| Sam Burrows | NHS Frimley ICB, UK |
| Rafael de Cabo | Chief of the Translational Gerontology Branch at the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, USA |
| Elise Cachat | Lecturer in Synthetic Biology, Deputy Director, Centre for Engineering Biology, Programme Director, MSc Synthetic Biology & Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Daisy Cai | B Capital |
| Lucas Camilo | Shift Bioscience |
| Andrea Cipriano | Stanford Stem Cell Institute, Stanford School of Medicine |
| Berthil Frederik Forrest Clasen | Eli Lilly and Company, AVP of Corporate BD, Head of Whitespace and AI/ML |
| Clive Cookson | Financial Times |
| Ana Maria Cuervo | MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA |
| Marija Cvijovic | University of Gothenburg, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| Michela Deleidi | MD, PhD, Mechanisms and Therapy of Genetic Brain Diseases, Institute Imagine, France |
| Marсo Demaria | European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing |
| David W. Dodick | MD, Emeritus Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Distinguished Investigator and Distinguished Educator, Mayo Clinic |
| Dominik Duscher | MD, PhD, MuseCell Innovations |
| Kitsu Egerton | Baillie Gifford & Co, UK |
| Collin Ewald | Novartis Biomedical Research Diseases of Aging and Regenerative Medicine |
| Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna | IFOM; IGM-CNR, Italy |
| Evandro Fei Fang | University of Oslo and Akershus University Hospital |
| Peter Fedichev | Co-founder of Gero, Singapore |
| Jerome Feige | Nestlé |
| Luigi Ferrucci | National Institute on Aging, USA |
| Benjamin Friedrich | Cluster of Excellence 'Physics of Life', TU Dresden, Germany |
| Anastasia Georgievskaya | CEO & Co-founder at Haut.AI |
| Vadim Gladyshev | Harvard Medical School, USA |
| Jonathan Gootenberg | PhD, Harvard Medical School, USA |
| Vera Gorbunova | University of Rochester, Departments of Biology and Medicine, USA |
| Jan Gruber | Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Department of Biochemistry, Healthy Longevity Translational Research Programme |
| Marta Guasch-Ferré | Associate Professor and Group Leader, Department of Public Health and Novo Nordisk Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen. Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
| Philipp Gut | Nestlé |
| Jackie Han | PhD, Peking University, China |
| Jacob Falck Hansen | PhD, Lundbeckfonden BioCapital, Denmark |
| Nan Hao | Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioengineering, Synthetic Biology Institute, University of California San Diego, USA |
| Will Harborne | GP & Chief Investment Officer of LongGame Ventures, United Kingdom |
| Anne Marije van Harten | PhD, Investment Director, Apollo Health Ventures, Luxembourg |
| Lars Hartenstein | McKinsey Health Institute, USA |
| Wei-Wu He | MBA, Executive Chairman and CEO of Human Longevity Inc., USA |
| Andrea Heinz | University of Copenhagen |
| Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers | CECAD, University of Cologne, Germany, Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Netherlands |
| Steve Horvath | Altos Labs, USA |
| Riekelt Houtkooper | Full Professor of Translational Metabolism, Principal Investigator, Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Sara Hägg | Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Associate Editor npj Aging |
| Sergey Jakimov | Managing Partner, LongeVC |
| In Hwa Jang | University of Minnesota, US |
| Heinrich Jasper | PhD, Principal Fellow and Director at Genentech Inc. |
| Martin Borch Jensen | Gordian Biotechnology |
| Shi Yu Jiang | Fudan University, China |
| Kunlin Jin | M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Aging and Disease, Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center, USA |
| Benjamin Johnson | Chief Editor of Nature Health, UK |
| Jamie Justice | XPRIZE Healthspan |
| Lida Katsimpardi | Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Biotherapies, INSERM U1183 and University of Montpellier, France |
| Kazuto Kawamura | Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing |
| Brian Kennedy | Programme Director, Healthy Longevity Translational Research Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Director, Centre for Healthy Longevity, National University Health System, Singapore, Distinguished Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore |
| James L. Kirkland | Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging, USA |
| Lotte Bjerre Knudsen | Chief Scientific Advisor & Head of GLP-1 CoE, Novo Nordisk, Denmark |
| Zane Koch | University of California San Diego |
| Paul Kohlhaas | Molecule |
| Axel Kowald | Institute for Biostatistics & Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research |
| Christoph Kuppe | Division of Nephrology and Clinical Immunology, RWTH Aachen University, Medical Faculty |
| Dudley W. Lamming | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| David Dreyer Lassen | University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Nathan K. LeBrasseur | PhD, Noaber Foundation Professor in Aging Research, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Department of Physiology & Biomedical Engineering, Director, Robert & Arlene Kogod Center on Aging, Mayo Clinic, USA |
| Yuta Lee | Founder & CEO of Accelerated Biosciences, USA |
| Jean-Marc Lemaitre | Co-Director of the Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biotherapies of Montpellier |
| Chuen Yan Leung | Value Partners Group |
| Michael Levitt | Department of Structural Biology, Stanford School of Medicine |
| Peter Lidsky | Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Ethan Liu | PhD, Westlake University, China |
| Sophia Liu | Ragon Institute of MGB, MIT, and Harvard, USA |
| Sebastian Lobentanzer | Institute of Computational Biology, Computational Health Center, Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research, Munich, Germany, Open Targets, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Kyle Loh | PhD, Stanford University, US |
| Sierra Lore | Buck Institute for Research on Aging |
| David Luu | MD, Founder, LongevityDocs, Juisci, The Heart Fund; Founder of Hearty; Board of Advisors, Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Institute, Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, USA |
| Andrea B. Maier | Oon Chiew Seng Professor in Medicine, National University of Singapore, Co-Founder, NUS Academy for Healthy Longevity, National University of Singapore, Professor of Gerontology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Founder, Chi Longevity |
| Lucia Marucci | University of Bristol, UK |
| H.E. Dr. Maryam Matar | Sheikh Zayed Genetic Research Centre, UAE |
| Morten Meldal | University of Copenhagen |
| Lisa Melton | Senior News Editor, Nature Biotechnology |
| Miriam Merad | Director of the Marc and Jennifer Lipschultz Precision Immunology Institute, USA |
| Barry Merriman | PhD, Avery Bio Inc., J. Craig Venter Institute |
| David Helmut Meyer | CECAD, University of Cologne |
| Rusty Montgomery | BioAge |
| Mahdi Moqri | PhD, MBA, Harvard University |
| Amy Morgan | Biomedical Research & Innovation Centre, School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford |
| Peter Mullen | PhD, University of Southern California |
| Anna Murray | Professor of Human Genetics & Director of Research and Impact, Department of Clinical and Biomedical Science, Faculty of Health and Life Science, University of Exeter |
| John Newman | Buck Institute for Research on Aging, USA, Division of Geriatrics, University of California San Francisco, USA |
| Laura Niedernhofer | MD, PhD, Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, USA |
| Hilde Loge Nilsen | AgeLab.no |
| Charlotte Owen-Woods | PhD, Scientific editor, Cell, Cell Press, Oxford, UK |
| Garegin Papoian | Deep Origin |
| Bente Klarlund Pedersen | Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS), Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Shahaf Peleg | FBN Dummerstorf, Germany |
| Bartlomiej Piechowski-Jozwiak | MD, MBA, FRACP, Institute for Healthier Living Abu Dhabi, UAE |
| Léo Pio-Lopez | Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University |
| Glen Pridham | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Jaron Rabinovici | Sheba Medical Center, Israel |
| Javier Maria Peralta Ramos | PhD, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA |
| Thomas A. Rando | University of California Los Angeles, USA |
| Naveh Raz | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Michael Ringel | PhD, Life Biosciences |
| Yusuf Roohani | Group Leader, Machine Learning at Arc Institute, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University |
| Sharon Rosenzweig-Lipson | PhD, Life Biosciences |
| Tomaz Rozmaric | Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Traumatology in Vienna |
| Edward Rudnic | PhD, Chief Operating Officer & Head of Research and Development, Maxwell Biosciences, USA |
| Steffen Rulands | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany |
| Elias Bou Samra | PhD, Senior Scientist Advanced Research, L'Oréal Research & Innovation |
| Wanviput Sanphasitvong | Bumrungrad International Hospital |
| Denis Sarigiannis | National Hellenic Research Foundation |
| Kennedy Schaal | Chief Executive Officer, Rejuve.Bio; Senior Biologist, Rejuve.AI; Spin-Off CEO, SingularityNET, USA |
| Marissa Schafer | PhD, Mayo Clinic Faculty Profiles - Mayo Clinic Research, USA |
| Morten Scheibye-Knudsen | University of Copenhagen |
| Tomás Schmauck-Medina | University of Oslo |
| Björn Schumacher | Director, Institute for Genome Stability in Aging and Disease, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Germany |
| Andrei Seluanov | University of Rochester, US |
| Elena Sergeeva | Tufts University and the Wyss Institute at Harvard |
| Ben Shenhar | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Gareth W. Shepherd | NHS and AFAR, UK |
| Mirre Simons | University of Sheffield |
| Vanessa Sinatti | Aptah Bio, USA |
| Priya Singhal | Biogen, USA |
| Aisyah Sjöholm | Insilico Medicine |
| Ryan Smith | TruDiagnostic, Inc., USA |
| Avi D. Spier | PhD, Corporate and Business Development, Executive Director Search & Evaluation for Cardio-Renal-Metabolic, Chemistry Platforms, Diseases of Aging and Regenerative medicine, Novartis, US |
| Risa Starr | The Academy for Health and Lifespan Research |
| Tzipora Strauss | MD, MSc, Head of Sheba Longevity Center, Sheba Medical, Israel |
| Charlotte Suetta | PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Yousin Suh | PhD, Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Reproductive Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Genetics and Development, Director of Reproductive Aging Program, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University |
| Lykke Sylow | Associate Professor and group leader of the Molecular Metabolism in Cancer & Aging Group at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Tuomas Tammela | Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA |
| Emma Teeling | Professor, University College Dublin |
| Alexey Terskikh | Harry Perkins Institute & University of Western Australia, Australia |
| Sebastien Thuault | Nature Aging |
| Mourad Topors | Chief Scientific Officer of Repair Biotechnologies, USA |
| Ala Trusina | Associate Professor in Biophysics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Andy Poyi Tsai | Stanford University |
| Alexander Tyshkovskiy | Harvard Medical School |
| Maximilian Unfried | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Dario Riccardo Valenzano | Full Professor at Friedrich Schiller University, Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena, Germany |
| Vijay Vaswani | Omniscope |
| Murali Venkatesan | PhD, Vice President, Science, Technology & Innovation, Global Head of Danaher Ventures, Danaher Corporation |
| Eric Verdin | Buck Institute for Research on Aging, USA |
| Denis Villemonais | IRMA, University of Strasbourg, France |
| Christiane Volbracht | Lundbeck |
| Weilan Wang | National University of Singapore |
| XingLi Wang | MD, PhD, Fosun Global Partner, Executive President of Fosun Pharma, Co-CEO of Fosun Greater Bay Area Headquarter, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO of Innovative Medicine Business Division, CEO of Global R&D |
| Geoffrey West | Santa Fe Institute, USA |
| Jeffrey West | PhD, Assistant Professor, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa Florida, USA |
| Todd White | The Thalion Initiative, USA |
| Dominika Wilczok | Duke University |
| Max Wilson | Associate Professor of Quantitative and Systems Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Tina Woods | Exposome Moonshot, US |
| Jun Wu | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| Tony Wyss-Coray | PhD, D. H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Director, The Phil and Penny Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience, Department of Neurology, Stanford University School of Medicine |
| Maximina Hee Yun | Chinese Institutes for Medical Research |
| Bohan Zhang | Harvard Medical School |
| Wenting Zhao | PhD, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, PI, Institute of Digital Molecular Analytics and Science (IDMxS), Singapore, Co-PI, Mechanobiology Institute (MBI), Singapore |
| Alex Zhavoronkov | Founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, USA |
| Garri Zmudze | Founding board member of the Longevity Science Foundation, Co-founder and managing partner of LongeVC, Switzerland |
| Alessandra Zonari | One Skin, USA |
| Tom Zuber | Zuber Lawler, USA |
Full session-by-session mapping of each speaker to their exact talk title and time is on /program/2025 and /tracks/2025.