📢 Save the Date! The Dutch Society for Research on Aging (DuSRA) Annual Meeting is coming up! 📍 Location: Amsterdam UMC- O2 auditorium 📅 Dates: November 10-11, 2025 Join us for two days of cutting-edge research, inspiring discussions, and networking with experts in the field of aging science. Organizing Committee: Riekelt Houtkooper, Reinier Boon, [...]
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Björn Schumacher is the keynote speaker for the DuSRA Annual Meeting! Professor Schumacher is a leading expert in genome stability and aging research. As the Director of the Institute for Genome Stability in Aging and Diseases at the University of Cologne, his groundbreaking work explores [...]
We are thrilled to announce our second keynote speaker: Prof. Jolanda van der Velden! Prof. van der Velden is a leading expert in cardiac physiology and Chair of the Department of Physiology and the Department of Experimental Cardiology at Amsterdam UMC. Her research focuses on how sarcomere protein mutations contribute to inherited [...]
Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the DuSRA Annual Meeting 2024, scheduled to take place on October 14th and 15th at the Wageningen Campus, Aurora Building. The meeting shares the latest results in ageing research in the Netherlands. The aim is to share results, connect with other ageing researchers and clinicians, [...]
In Cologne, from 30th of September till 4th of October 2024 a summer school for international bachelor and master students is being organized by stat-of-the-art aging researchers from several institutes in Cologne. International & national Bachelor and Master students from the field of Biology, Biochemistry, Biomedicine and other related Life Science disciplines are invited [...]
Dear DuSRA members, Please SAVE THE DATA of the Annual DuSRA Meeting!!!! This year we will meet in Wageningen on October 14 and 15. Yes, an overnight program this year! Registration, program and venue details are soon to follow. We hope to see you in October in Wageningen!
E life Sciences| 30 april 2018 Abstract Ageing is associated with physical decline and the development of age-related diseases such as metabolic disorders and cancer. Few conditions are known that attenuate the adverse effects of ageing, including calorie restriction (CR) and reduced signalling through the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway. Synthesis [...]
Horizon - The EU Research & Innovation Magazine 5 juli 2018 The regenerative abilities of the flatworm Macrostomum lignano serve as a model for how humans might regenerate tissues. Image credit - Flickr/ Lukas Schärer, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Research into the remarkable regenerative powers of worms and the insights they can give [...]
Persbericht LUMC - 7 januari 2019 Een lang leven is erfelijk, maar dat geldt primair voor personen uit families waarvan meerdere leden behoren tot de top tien procent overlevers van hun generatie. In de genen van deze families ligt waarschijnlijk de sleutel tot een lang leven. Dat schrijven onderzoekers van het Leids Universitair Medisch [...]
The Netherlands Consortium of Dementia Cohorts has performed a meta-analysis with 8 cohort studies to investigate the associations between depressive symptoms later in life and plasma markers for Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegeneration. The Leiden Longevity Study was one of the participating cohorts. The results are published in “The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry” The [...]
