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Date and Time: Friday, April 20, 2007, 4 PM
Location: Room 2919 at the Arizona Cancer Center, 1515 N. Campbell | map
Title: Videos From the Edmonton Aging Symposium
Description: We will be watching archived video from the Edmonton Aging Symposium that was held on March 30 through 31, 2007 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

The Edmonton Aging Symposium has been called a watershed event for aging research. Organized by Kevin Perrott, a Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta, Executive Director of The Mprize competition, and Outreach Coordinator of the Methuselah Foundation, the Symposium brought together scientists, social scientists, students, politicians, the press and the public to learn about the current state-of-the-art in aging research. From the website:

To this end, this symposium is designed to bring an awareness of the rapid pace of the development of intervention-oriented therapies in age-related dysfunction to the educated layman and lab-hardened researcher alike, as well as draw the attention of policy-makers to the massive economic benefits available to those who create an environment where these technologies can be developed and implemented at all possible speed.