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November 2006

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2007 Annual Meeting

News and Announcements

SAVE THE DATE: June 1-4, 2007

Read more news on  our 36th AGE annual meeting 

36th AGE ANNUAL MEETING - June 1-4, 2007

Current Directions in Studying Mechanisms of Aging

  • SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT TODAY!!!  Click here to review conditions and online submission requirements.  Deadline for abstract submission is March 1, 2007!
  • Review the list of speakers and some of their profiles!
  • Review the preliminary program.
  • Book your hotel room for the Annual Meeting now - limited space available!  Read more about the Marriott Plaza San Antonio, area information, etc. 
  • Register early and save $50!  Take advantage of our early-bird registration fees now!  Deadline for early-bird registration is April 1, 2007.
  • EXHIBIT/SPONSORSHIP

    Various levels of sponsorships available - check out the details here

    The 36th American Aging Association Annual Meeting offers great opportunities to expand your company's visibility among the registrants by becoming an exhibitor and/or conference sponsor.   These will include multiple opportunities to:

    - introduce and discuss your products and services with leading basic science researchers and clinicians of the aging field

    - reach decision makers within a group-setting

    - open door to new leads and long-term business relationships

    - increase exposure and strengthen brand recognition in the aging research field.

    Attendees include many decision makers, such as academic department chairs, heads of laboratories, government officials, attending clinicians, private practitioners, post-docs, MD and PhD students and technicians. You will be hard pressed to find a more appropriate audience for your latest products and services.  

    Consider becoming a sponsor today and take advantage of extensive advertising opportunities via our newsletter and website!

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

WELCOME TO OUR NEW AGE MEMBERS:

Wu Po Hui, PhD, Taiwan 
Michael Mahaney, PhD, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, USA
Ramez (David) Wassef, MD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Corinne M. Price, USA
James Roberts, PhD, UTHSCSA, USA

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MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS:

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December 5, 2006

Multiple Targets for Alzheimer's Disease: γ–Secretase and Tau

New York Academy of Sciences , New York, NY, U.S.A.  

nyas.org/events/eventDetail.asp?eventID=7514 &date=12/5/2006%209:00:00%20AM

 

December 5, 2006

New Classes of Animal Small Silencing RNAs

New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, U.S.A.

nyas.org/events/eventDetail.asp?eventID=7641 &date=12/5/2006%205:00:00%20PM

 

January 16-21, 2007

Keystone Symposia: Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration

Sagebrush Inn and Conference Center, Taos, NM, U.S.A.

www.keystonesymposia.org/Meetings/viewMeetings.c fm?MeetingID=841&subTab=program

 

January 28 - February 2, 2007

Keystone Symposia: MicroRNAs and siRNAs: Biological Functions and Mechanisms

Keystone Resort, Keystone, CO, U.S.A.

www.keystonesymposia.org/  

 

January 19-20, 2007

ECAA: 1st Eurasian Congress in Aesthetic and Anti-Aging Medicine

Bangkok, Thailand

 

February 4-6, 2007
Nanomaterial & its Applications

Tamil Nadu, India
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 6 January 2007

 

March 30-31, 2007
Edmonton Aging Symposium - Repairing the Damage

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

www.edmontonagingsymposium.com

 

July 5-8, 2007

6th European Congress of Gerontology
St Petersburg, Russia

congress2007@gerontology.ru

 

September 6-10, 2007

Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), 3rd Conference
Cambridge, United Kingdom
The purpose of the SENS conference series is to expedite the development of truly effective therapies to postpone and treat human aging by tackling it as an engineering problem.

www.sens.org/sens3/

 

September 26-28, 2007

4th International Symposium on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders in the Middle East

Athens, Greece

www.worldeventsforum.com/alz.htm

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GRANT/AWARD ANNOUNCEMENTS

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www.afar.org

American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)

5 grants of up to $60,000 each

Deadline(s):  12 December annually

 

http://www.elderhostel.org/grants

Program Type: Neuroscience, Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, Gerontology
Deadline(s): 02/15/2007

Type of Scientists Funded: PhD Dissertation Student, Initial PhD Postdoc, Advanced PhD Postdoc

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JOURNAL

 

AGE's 28.2 is now published and available to all AGE members!  Click here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1574-4647

We invite all of you to visit the journal website (www.springer.com/11357) and click on the Online version available for the new website for the journal content. You will be able to browse through the content from Vol. 1/Issue 1.  Association members need to type in the login information in order to access the journal content.

If you are not an AGE member, become a member today and get access to ALL AGE issues!

For journal updates, please bookmark the Association's
homepage or visit the Springer site at www.springer.com/11357

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BOOKS

20% discount for American Aging Association Members!  Order today!  Download flyer to learn more about the book.

 

Contents: Preface.- 1. Biological causes of aging and age-related diseases.- 2. Immunity, inflammation and infections during aging.- 3. Progress and development in Parkinson’s therapy.- 4. Understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease.- 5. Slowing down age-related muscle loss and sarcopenia.- 6. Pathophysiology, prevention and treatment of age-related osteoporosis in women.- 7. Arthritis and its treatments.- 8. Recent developments in the treatment of diabetes-2.- 9. Age-related cataract: management and prevention.- 10. Skin aging: pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment.- 11. Aging and periodontal disease.- 12. Molecular diagnosis of breast cancer.- 13. Prostate disease in the aging male.- 14. Human premature aging diseases: molecular biology to clinical diagnosis.- 15. Protein aggregation in aging and age-related diseases.- 16. Nutritional deficiency and its modulation in old age.- 17. Dietary fats and age-related diseases.

OTHER NEWS

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GSA Confers 2006 Nathan Shock New Investigator Award To Our Very Own, Dr. Rafael de Cabo, AGE Student Committee Chair

Read press release at http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=56682

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