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Longevity Medicine - How to design a trial to target aging
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3185-26-00-00	There are 60 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 02/11/2026

Date and time	30.11.2026, at: 10:00 - 02.12.2026, at: 17:00
Regular seats	60
Course fee	2,040.00 kr.
Lecturers	Morten Scheibye-Knudsen
ECTS credits	2.10

Contact person	Morten Scheibye-Knudsen E-mail address: mscheibye@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration SUND E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment guidelines This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member faculties. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Understand the biology of aging 2. Understand how to measure aging 3. Understand the basics of a randomized clinical trial 4. Understand how to design a trial targeting aging 5. Understand how to interpret outcomes of aging trials Content The course covers the biological mechanisms of aging, biomarkers of biological age, longevity interventions, AI-driven drug discovery, and the principles of designing, conducting, and evaluating clinical trials targeting aging to promote healthy lifespan. Participants Clinicians, Clinician scientists and students within the biomedical sciences. The course will be offered online and onsite. We expect 30 online and 30 on site. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: Cellular and Genetic Medicine Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Pharmaceutical Sciences (Drug Research Academy) Language English Form Lectures and group discussion Course director Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, Associate professor, ICMM, mscheibye@sund.ku.dk Teachers Sara Hägg, associate professor, Karolinska Jim Kirkland, professor, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Luigi Ferrucci, Scientific Director, National Insitute on Aging, NIH Alex Zhavoronkov, CEO, Insilico Medicine John Newman, professor, Buck Institute Andrea Maier, professor, National University of Singapore Evelyne Bischoff, professor, Sheba Medicial Clinic Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, Associate professor, UCPH Lene Juel Rasmussen, professor, UCPH Course location Panum Expected frequency Yearly Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.

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