The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Interventions Testing Program (ITP) investigates dietary supplements purported to extend lifespan and/or delay the onset of disease and disability.  

The NIA ITP is soliciting proposals for compounds to enter the study in 2013. The deadline for receipt of proposals is September 21, 2012.  

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The NIA Interventions Testing Program Announces the 2012 Solicitation of Proposals - 2012 - Aging Cell - Wiley Online Library - [Papers of Interest]

The upcoming ISGSB meeting wil be held on the isle of Ameland in the Wadden Sea, The Netherlands on September 25-28, 2012. The special theme of the meeting will be Energy Metabolism and Ageing.

As a satelite to this meeting we will organize a Systems Biology Symposium on Energy Metabolism and Ageing in the city of Groningen, The Netherlands on September 24, 2012

Further information at the Calendar entry.

The past decade has seen epidemiologists frequently predict two phenomena that loom darkly over the future of our society: ageing and obesity. The challenge of an increasingly old and overweight society almost certainly comes packed with grave costs in economic, health and social terms. It is therefore imperative that as scientists we study the biological basis of both ageing and obesity to provide a much fuller understanding of these two seemingly separate entities. But just how separate are they? And can scientists working in two seemingly distinct fields actually be looking at the same processes from different angles?

Registration for Ageing: Moving Beyond Boundaries, a conference to be held in Lancaster 5th-7th September 2012 is now open. Submission of abstracts welcome until 20th April.

For more information, visit the Calendar entry for the conference.

Dates: 20th - 21st September

Location: Babraham Institute

Ageing research is driven by the need to understand how we age and to increase healthy lifespan. However, the study of ageing also reveals novel molecular, genetic and cellular mechanisms important for wider understanding of basic biology. This meeting will highlight the most exciting recent advances in ageing research. It will discuss innovative techniques and the model organisms in which they are applied, and it will consider how understanding of basic bioscience contributes to, and benefits from research into ageing.

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Timing of onset of cognitive decline: results from Whitehall II prospective cohort study | BMJ - [Papers of Interest]

I’m pretty sure, anecdotally speaking, that if one was to ask a room full of 65 year olds if they had noticed any change in their memory over the past few years most would say they had. I’m equally sure that if one asked a room of 45 year olds the same question the answer would be quite different. The findings of a recent study have however radically suggested that there are significant decreases in cognitive function seen in men as early as 45-49 years of age.

London, 8th March 2012

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Glasgow 13th-17th August 2012

Registration extended to 14th February 2012

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The University of Manchester - Medical & Human Sciences

Research Associate – quantifying age-related changes in tissue structure and function

The University of Manchester is seeking high quality candidates for two positions that have arisen as a result of an MRC-led Lifelong Health and Wellbeing award made to the Schools of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine (FMHS) and to the School of Materials (FEPS).  This post (based in the School of Biomedicine) will work in close collaboration with the post based in the School of Materials.