Healthy Aging Week 2023
Oxygen Club of California Workshop. Alba, 7th November 2023
Effects of Anti-Aging Redox Medicine on Health and Lifespan
Organised by the Oxygen Club of California, in collaboration with Fondazione Ferrero and Soremartec.
The proceedings of the OCC Workshop are published in Redox Experimental Medicine — bioscientifica.com
9.00 Welcome Address
Opening remarks: Ettore Bologna, Roberto Menta, Giuseppe Poli, Enrique Cadenas
9.30 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Giovanni Mann, Michael Ristow
"Small molecule-mediated geroprotection and promotion of healthspan"
Session I: Vitamins
Chairs: Hüveyda Basaga, Anne Négre-Salvayre
- 10.30 Maret Traber — Expanding on vitamin E protection against metabolic dysregulation
- 11.00 Lucia Malaguarnera — Antioxidative effects of vitamin D in muscle dysfunction
- 11.30 Tilman Grune — Vitamins: key players in the redox status of the elderly
Session II: Diet and Health
Chairs: Josiane Cillard, Gabriella Leonarduzzi
- 12.00 Laura De Gara — Plant bio-active molecules: from molecular mechanism to health
- 12.30 Roberto Menta — Plant-based food: a perspective on nutritional and technological issues
- 13.00 Sebastiano Banni — Impact of dietary palmitic acid on metabolic flexibility
13.30 Light Lunch
Session III: Geroprotectors and Muscle Function
Chairs: Fiorella Biasi, Giuseppe Valacchi
- 15.00 Malcolm J. Jackson — Redox control of signaling responses to contractile activity and ageing in skeletal muscle
- 15.30 Victor M. Victor — Metformin and its redox-related mechanism/s of action in type 2 diabetes
- 16.00 Ilaria Bellantuono — The role of senotherapeutics in the treatment of multimorbidity and frailty
- 16.30 Jordi Muntané — Impact of rapamycin derivatives and their FKBP binding in the mTOR signaling in liver cells
17.00 Round Table Discussion — Which role for redox-active compounds in therapeutical protocols for >55 age patients? José Viña, Ettore Bologna, Giovanni Mann, Juan Sastre, Giuseppe Valacchi
18.00 Closing remarks: Giuseppe Poli, Enrique Cadenas
Useful Information
Location: Fondazione Ferrero, Strada di Mezzo 44, Alba (Cuneo)
The participation in the convention is free. The convention does not receive funds from pharmaceutical companies. All events will be streamed on the website www.fondazioneferrero.it
Scientific Office: Margherita Campanello, Fondazione Ferrero, Via Vivaro 49, Alba (Cn), tel +39 0173 295094 — margherita.campanello@fondazioneferrero.it
Organizational Office: Cristina Manzone, Fondazione Ferrero, Via Vivaro 49, Alba (Cn), tel +39 0173 295259 — cristina.manzone@fondazioneferrero.it
CME Provider: Staff PáP Peveragno (Cn), tel +39 370 3483379 — info@staffpep.com
Online registration: September 15 – October 15, 2023 — www.fondazioneferrero.it
Enrolment in CME courses entitles the participant to attend the scientific proceedings, conference materials, certificate of attendance, light lunch when provided.
How to Reach the Conference Venue
By car — motorway A6 Torino-Savona (exit of Marene, junction with A33 Asti-Cuneo, exit of Cherasco, then Pollenzo, ring road to Alba, exit of Corso Europa); or motorway A21 Torino-Piacenza (exit of Asti Est, junction with A33 Asti-Cuneo, ring road to Alba, exit of Corso Europa).
By train — Alba railway station (1 km from the conference location).
By plane — Turin Caselle airport (95 km), Genova airport (139 km), Milano Malpensa 2000 airport (162 km), Milano Linate airport (165 km).