What has COVID taught us about the biology of ageing?

Why are older people disproportionally affected by COVID? Why does COVID appear to accelerate the ageing process? How does the biology of long COVID differ and how does that advance our understanding of the biology of ageing? This session looks at everything we’ve learned in the past twelve months about COVID and the biology of ageing.


• Janet Lord, Director of the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham
• James Kirkland, Director of the Robert and Arlene Kogod Centre on Aging, Mayo Clinic; President Elect, American Federation for Aging
• Moderator: Nir Barzilai, Director, Institute for Aging Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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