Replacing Aging, with Jean Hébert

What are the most promising options for dealing with the biological damage that accumulates throughout our bodies as we age?

For example, are collections of drugs likely to prove effective at undoing that damage, without causing adverse side-effects?

Or should more attention be placed on the possibilities to replace parts of our body, using innovative tissue engineering and stem cell therapies?

The latter approach is favoured by Dr Jean Hébert, who will be sharing his views and describing his most recent research in this London Futurists webinar.

Dr Hébert is Professor, Department of Neuroscience, and Professor, Department of Genetics, at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He is also the author of the recent book "Replacing Aging".

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Dr Jean Hébert heads the Hébert Lab at the Albert Einstein College, https://hebertlab.einsteinmedneuroscience.org/about/

The Lab is dedicated to "Moving toward restoration of brain function with tissue engineering".

Dr Hébert previously held academic positions at Stanford. He earned his Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California, San Francisco, and studied as an undergraduate in McGill University in Montreal.

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Selected praise for the book "Replacing Aging":

“An impressive overview of how regenerative medicine may reverse aging and reboot the brain"
-- Anthony Atala, MD, Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

“This is a scientist’s perspective on aging as a condition that can be treated. The ideas that seem most like science fiction, such as replacing parts of the brain, are actually edging toward reality”
-- Jeanne Loring, PhD, Co-founder of Aspen Neuroscience, Director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute

“Highly provocative and a great overview of recent progress in regenerative medicine and how it may at some point be applied in the fight against aging”
-- Nir Barzilai, MD, Scientific Director for AFAR

See https://www.amazon.co.uk/Replacing-Aging-Jean-H%C3%A9bert-Ph-D/dp/1513663763/

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The webinar will start broadcasting at 4pm UK time on Sat 22nd January. To find this time in other timezones, use https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20220122T160000&p1=136

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As the discussion proceeds, attendees will be welcome to raise questions and vote to prioritise questions raised by others.

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The graphic above includes original work by Pixabay member Pete Linforth https://pixabay.com/illustrations/brain-thought-mind-idea-psychology-4314636/

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