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In Switzerland, the Swiss Campus for Healthy Longevity at the University of Basel hosted the first partner meeting of the Global Health Span Extension Consortium β a historic step for healthy longevity science and translation.
This was more than a meeting. It marked the launch of a global effort uniting leaders across clinical care, public health, large cohorts, randomized trials, biology of aging, AI health, and health economics β all on one science-based platform focused on extending π‘πππ₯ππ‘π¬π©ππ§, not just preventing one disease.
ππ‘π² π’π π¦πππππ«π¬ π§π¨π°: the field is advancing fast. New biomarkers, multi-omics, and AI-enabled analytics are opening major opportunities. What is needed now is not more fragmentation, but integration β linking discovery science to clinical validation, implementation, and public health impact.
A defining strength of this consortium is its π‘πππ₯ππ‘π¬π©ππ§-ππ’π«π¬π π₯ππ§π¬: advancing overall health, physical function, resilience, cognition, and wellbeing across the lifespan. It also creates a rare translational engine between cohorts and trials, allowing observational data to inform interventions and trials to validate biomarkers and feed findings back into population science.
We are deeply grateful to Andrea Schenker-Wicki, President of the University of Basel, for her inspiring speech to the consortium, and to Primo SchΓ€r, Vice President of the University of Basel, for opening the scientific sessions and underscoring the central importance of ππ―π’πππ§ππ in healthy longevity science.
We also sincerely thank SΓ©bastien Thuault, Editor of Nature Aging, who attended both days and led a key panel on the consortiumβs next steps.
A special thank you to our keynote speakers, Steve Horvath and Tony Wyss-Coray, who coordinate this consortium together with Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari, Joanne Ryan, and Walter Willett.
We were also grateful to be joined by our outstanding consortium partners β see https://lnkd.in/… β and guests, including Heather Eliassen, Annalise Schweickart, David Meyer, Anette Weber, Nicole Frank, Christian MΓΌller, Diego Kyburz, Matthias Schwenkglenks, Philipp Homan, VΓ©ronique Tischhauser-Ducrot, Oliver Mauthner, Werner K., Andreas Egli, MichΓ¨le Mattle, Sandrine Rival, Romano Steiner, Manfred Eggersdorfer, Manfred Weigler, Nina Ruge, and the DSM Science Team led by Anneleen Sporen.
What stood out most over these two days was a shared commitment to ππ¨π₯π₯πππ¨π«πππ’π¨π§ β and a clear determination to translate novel measures of biological aging and multimodal treatments that extend healthspan into scalable public health benefits.
The work starts now.