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This is why we form an alliance with our partners the Mayo Clinic, USA; Newcastle University, UK; University of Minnesota, USA, and University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
We arrange meetups for scientists, clinicians and engineers, to exchange research results and ideas on translational research on ageing. Our annual Alliance meetup:
Our meetups connect experts through an interdisciplinary panel with unique clinical, scientific, and commercial perspectives.
Interactions between the collaborating institutions take place within the field of research and education. Our focus is on translational research for healthy ageing on:
The Alliance for Healthy Aging was founded in 2009 by Mayo Clinic (USA) and the University Medical Center Groningen, the University of Groningen, the Noaber Foundation (Lunteren) and Vita Valley (Ede) from the Netherlands.
In 2015, Newcastle University Institute for Ageing in the UK joined our collaboration and in 2019 the University of Minnesota-Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism, Minneapolis, USA, and the University of Copenhagen-Center for Healthy Aging in Denmark joined the network as well.