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Mini Symposium on Healthy Longevity and Ageing

📅 Date:    9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Registration will commence at 8:30 AM)
🕘 Time:     Monday, 4 August 2025
📍 Venue: Amphitheatre, Level 2, Duke-NUS Medical School
8 College Road, Singapore 169857

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome Remark
Patrick TAN
Professor, Office of Research
Senior Vice Dean, Office of Research
Dean (Designate), Dean's Office
 
9:15 - 9:45

Keynote Speaker
Chair: Assoc Prof Samuel CHEW
25 min presentation; 5 min Q & A

 Title talk: Sarcopenia: An Emerging Syndrome in Older Adults 
Roger FIELDING
Senior Scientist, Professor of Nutrition and Medicine
USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
Tufts University, United States of America
Session 1:

Moderator:  Asst Prof Mihir GANDHI
15 min presentation; 5 min Q & A

9:45 – 10:05 Talk title: Overview of CARE
Rahul MALHOTRA

Executive Director, Centre for Ageing Research & Education
Associate Professor, Health Services and Systems Research 

10:05 – 10:25 Talk title: Harnessing Technology to Address Falls Prevention in the Community
Angelique CHAN
Associate Professor, Centre for Ageing Research & Education
Associate Professor, Health Services & Systems Research
 
10:25 – 10:45 Title: Adding value to grant proposals: How we incorporated implementation science into the SenseHealth Research Program
Elaine LUM
Assistant Professor, Signature Research Programme in Health Services & Systems Research
 
10:45 – 11:00

Morning Coffee Break

Sesson 2:

Moderator: Assoc Prof Lena HO
15 min presentation; 5 min Q & A

11:00 – 11:20 Talk title: Sterols in Longevity: Uncovering New Pathways in Aging Biology
Babita MADAN
Associate Professor, Signature Research Programme in Cancer & Stem Cell Biology
 
11:20 – 11:40 Talk title: Ageing Better Together with CVMD at Duke-NUS
Anissa WIDJAJA
Assistant Professor, Signature Research Programme in Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders
 
11.40 – 12:00 Talk Title: Decoding Longevity from Bats
Matae AHN
Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University
 
12:00 – 12:20 Talk Title: T cell in antiviral and tumour control: impact of age
Anthony TAN
Assistant Professor, Signature Research Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
12:20 – 13:30 Lunch (Buffet)
Session 3

Moderator: Assoc Prof Ashley Lauren ST. JOHN
15 min presentation; 5 min Q & A

13:30 – 13:50 Talk title: Ageing in Vascular and Eye Health
Xiaomeng WANG
Associate Professor, Centre for Vision Research, CVMD
 
13:50 – 14:10 Talk title: Mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases (focus on Parkinson's
Mian CAO
Assistant Professor, Signature Research Programme in Neuroscience & Behavioural Disorders
 
14:10 – 14:30 Title Talk: The Silent Conversation: Aging, Muscles, and the Signals We Miss
Hong-Wen TANG
Assistant Professor, Signature Research Programme in Cancer & Stem Cell Biology
 
14:30 – 14:50 Title: BCAA Catabolism in Cardiac Ageing and Heart Failure Therapy
Chen Gao
Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati
 
14:50- 15:10 Title: Clonal Haematopoiesis. What We Know
Sin Tiong ONG
Professor, Signature Research Programme in Cancer & Stem Cell Biology
 
15:10 – 15:30

Afternoon break

Panel Session

Strategies, Gaps, Policy
Moderator: Assoc Prof Rahul MALHOTRA

15:30 – 16:30

Panellists:

Wee Shiong LIM
Assoc Professor & Director, Institute of Geriatrics & Active Ageing, Tan Tock Seng Hospital

Barry HALLIWELL
Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Ms Zhi Xu TAN
Director, Successful Ageing, Ageing Planning Office,
Ministry Of Health

 16:30 – 17:30 MAGNET Special Session


 
 

 

 

 


Date and Time


04 Aug 2025 @ 09:00 - 04 Aug 2025 @ 18:00

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