Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator

FUSION 2019 Recap
While the medical, scientific, and economic challenges related to aging are immense, many scientific and business leaders are engaged and are focused on practical, scalable, innovative solutions. Some solutions already exist, and others aren’t far off. Read the FUSION 2019 Summary
Featured Speakers
Sachin H. Jain '02, MD'06, MBA '07
President and Chief Executive Officer, CareMore Health System
Richard J. Hodes, MD '69
Director of the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health
George Church, PhD '84
Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School
Nir Barzilai, MD
Professor of Medicine and of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Director of the Institute for Aging Research, Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Human Aging Research, and Director of the NIH Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging
In many ways, this has proven to be more spectacular than anything that we might have imagined.
Dean, Harvard Business School
ADDITIONAL REMARKS:
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President of Harvard University
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Nitin Nohria
Dean of Harvard Business School
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Michelle A. Williams
Dean of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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George Q. Daley
Dean of Harvard Medical School
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Len Blavatnik, MBA ‘89
Founder and Chairman, Access Industries
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Peter Barrett
Faculty Chair, Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship; Partner, Atlas Venture
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Isaac Kohlberg
Senior Associate Provost and Chief Technology Development Officer
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Cara Sterling
Director, HBS Health Care Initiative
Global population aging is one of the greatest public health challenges of our time. Aging populations will affect the workforce. They will affect families and education and healthcare policies. They will strain healthcare systems, especially those in low-income communities and countries.
Dean, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Lending insights to action for the aging world
The inevitable infirmities of aging may not be so certain after all. Though few products on the market today can help turn back the hands of time, that may soon change.
Read more in the Harvard Gazette