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MIRA Seminar: Why and how are we living longer?

MDCL 3023

27/04/2018, 10:00 am - TO 27/04/2018 - 11:00 am

Organizer: McMaster Institute for Research on Aging

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The McMaster Institute for Research on Aging is pleased to present:

Tom Kirkwood, Professor Emeritus from Newcastle University’s Institute for Ageing and member of MIRA’s International Scientific Advisory Committee member, will address the question of how and why the human lifespan is increasing.

Speaker:
Dr. Tom Kirkwood, Newcastle University
Professor Emeritus (formerly Associate Dean for Ageing), Institute for Ageing

Until the last two decades, few scientists studied aging. The common view was simply that the human body is programmed to die after a certain period. The previous increase in life expectancy was caused almost entirely by preventing deaths in the early and middle years of life. We now know, however, that the surprising continuation of the increase in human longevity is driven by something new: we are reaching old age in generally better health, and it is the death rates at advanced ages that are now falling fast. At the same time, biology has established that there is almost certainly no fixed program for aging.

Registration not required, all are welcome.