RAND Conference Program

Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists

July 6-7, 2009

RAND Headquarters
Santa Monica, California

Note: Speakers are preliminary and are subject to change.


Monday, July 6th

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.

Breakfast

9:30 – 10:00 a.m.

Introductions and opening remarks

10:00 – 11:45 a.m.

David Barker, University of Southampton, UK & Oregon Health and Science University

The Maternal and Fetal Origins of Aging

11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Lunch

1:15 - 2:45 p.m.

Richard Miller, University of Michigan

Anti-Aging Medicines - Are We There Yet? and Why Not?

PDFExtending Life: Scientific Prospects and Political Obstacles

PDFScience fact and the SENS agenda

PDF"Dividends" From Research on Aging — Can Biogerontologists, at Long Last, Find Something Usefuul to Do?

Note: These are not RAND documents.

2:45 - 3:15 p.m.

Break

3:15 - 4:45 p.m.

Christopher Benz, Buck Institute for Age Research

Evaluating Cancer-Aging Paradigms in Breast Cancer

PDFAgeing, oxidative stress and cancer: paradigms in parallax

PDFImpact of aging on the biology of breast cancer

PDFPuzzles, promises and a cure for ageing

PDFCellular senescence: when bad things happen to good cells

PDFTrends in oxidative aging theories

PDFOxidative stress and cancer: have we moved forward?

PDFAre cancer and ageing different sides of the same coin?

Note: These are not RAND documents.

4:45 p.m.

Adjourn

5:30 – 8:00 p.m.

Dinner at The Lobster

Tuesday, July 7th

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.

Breakfast

9:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Stephen Stearns, Yale University

Major Themes in Evolutionary Medicine

PDFSenescence in a Bacterium with Asymmetric Division

PDFMedicine Needs Evolution

PDFExperimental evolution of aging in a bacterium

PDFThe great opportunity: Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health

Note: These are not RAND documents.

11:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Break

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Steven Schwartz, University of California, Los Angeles

The Ageing Eye: That Vision Thing

1:00 - 2:15 p.m.

Lunch

2:15 - 3:45 p.m.

David Greenberg, Buck Institute for Age Research

Neurogenesis in Diseases of Aging

PDFNeurogenesis in Diseases of Aging

3:45 p.m.

Adjourn

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