http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/never_say_die
Never Say Die
How Radical will Radical Life Extension Be?
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 8:30am - 1:30pm
New America Foundation
1899 L Street NW Suite 400
Washington, DC, 20036
Will 250 be the new 100 in the foreseeable future? Human life expectancy has made steady gains over the last two centuries, and anti-aging scientists seeking to spare human cells and DNA from the corrosion once deemed inevitable are eager to trigger a radical extension in our life spans. How likely is such a spike? And how desirable is it to live to be a quarter of a millennium? Will life-extending scientific breakthroughs translate into an interminable twilight for many, or will they also postpone aging?
Please join us to learn about the state of life-extending research, and to ponder some of the wrenching philosophical, societal and actuarial (et tu, Social Security?) questions raised by the efforts to radically grow life expectancy.
Participants
8:30 am - Coffee and Registration
9:00 am - Welcome
Steve Coll
President, New America Foundation
9:10 am ““ Great Expectations: The Past, Present, and Future of Life Expectancy
Ted Fishman
Author, Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World’s Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation
9:30 am - Panel I: The War on Dying, the Battle Against Aging
Ana Maria Cuervo
Director, The Cuervo Lab
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Aubrey de Grey
Chief Scientist, Methuselah Foundation
Stephen Johnston
Director, Center for Innovations in Medicine The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University
Moderator
Emily Yoffe
Columnist, Slate and The Washington Post
11:00 am - Coffee Break
11:15 am - Panel 2: Happily Ever After? What it Means for Society to Drastically Prolong Life
Ted Fishman
Author, Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World’s Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation
Cynthia Kenyon
Director, Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging University of California, San Francisco
S. Jay Olshansky
Professor of Epidemiology
University of Illinois, Chicago
Jason Robert
Franca Oreffice Dean”™s Distinguished Professor in the Life Sciences Arizona State University
Moderator
Will Saletan
National Correspondent, Slate magazine
12:45 pm - Keynote Conversation and Lunch
Francis Collins
Director, National Institutes of Health
Former Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute
Kavita Patel
Director, Health and Policy Program, New America Foundation
1:30pm - Adjourn
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