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Student-led group at Harvard. We're building community in Boston to catalyze collaboration and new ideas in aging research and biotech.

Cambridge, MA
Joined November 2023
The Aging Initiative Summer Mixer will now be held on Thursday, July 30, at 7 PM! The opportunity to meet others from across Boston's life science community remains unchanged. Sign up with the QR code below!
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Are you in Cambridge or Boston this summer? Join the Aging Initiative on July 29 at 7 PM for our Summer Mixer! Meet fellow students, interns, and researchers working in aging research, biotechnology, and the broader life sciences community.
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Interested in clinical care & frailty in aging? Join the Aging Initiative on April 10, 6–7 PM for a talk by Dr. Dae Hyun Kim, Harvard med physician-scientist advancing frailty-based care and improving outcomes for older adults.
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Fireside chat with Ankit Gupta (@agupta), @ycombinator General Partner & @Harvard alum, former cofounder of @reverielabs and Head of AI at @Ginkgo. He’ll share insights on venture capital, ML, life sciences, and his experience at Harvard! Next monday @ 5:15 PM.
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Join us on February 28th for the Osteoarthritis Surgical Innovation and Science (OASIS) Symposium to hear from leading figures in osteoarthritis research, treatment, and biotechnology!
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Speaker event with genomics and metabolic disease expert Professor Melina Claussnitzer on 2/26/2026, 4-5pm! Learn how big data and human genetics fuels discovery of new targets for obesity, diabetes, and other population-scale cardiometabolic diseases.
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We recently hosted Dr. Shalender Bhasin for a workshop on clinical trials for function-promoting medicines. Key ideas included targeting real mobility issues, using patient-reported outcomes, pairing drugs with functional exercise, and using actigraphy to track daily gains.
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Aging Initiative’s first ever Legislative Briefing on Aging Biology at the Massachusetts State House was a massive success!
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for our CompBio Speaker Event & Workshop! Special thanks to @mahdi_moqri (HMS), co-director of the @agingbiomarkers , for a behind-the-scenes look at how open-source tools like Biolearn are helping build/validate biological aging clocks
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