Aging is often understood through the diseases that emerge later in life. Today, however, new advances in AI, genomics and biomarker science are opening the possibility of identifying risk much earlier and acting before disease takes hold.
In this talk, Eric Topol will discuss how we may be able to extend human healthspan by preventing the major age-related diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cancer and neurodegenerative conditions. He will explore how comprehensive individual data profiles, including genomics, organ clocks, biomarkers and other relevant measures, can be analyzed with multimodal AI to assess risk and guide interventions more precisely. He will also review a new trial aimed at preventing Alzheimer’s disease, and reflect on what these developments could mean for the future of preventive medicine and healthy aging.
Practical Information
The lecture will be delivered in English. No interpretation will be provided.
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Speaker
Eric Topol
American cardiologist, scientist, and author Executive Vice-President of Scripps Research
Eric Topol is Executive Vice-President of Scripps Research, the largest non-profit biomedical research in the United States, where he is founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute (established in 2007). Clinically active as a cardiologist, he previously led Cleveland Clinic cardiology department, helping to establish it as the leading heart centre in the US, and founded the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. He was commissioned by the UK government to lead a review of their National Health Service.
Topol is a principal investigator on two large NIH grants for innovations to promote human health. He has published over 1,300 peer-reviewed articles, with more than 380,000 citations, and is a member of the US National Academy of Medicine. He is among the top 10 most cited researchers in medicine. In 2024, Topol was featured on the inaugural TIME100 Health list of the world's most influential people in health; in 2025, he was named one of the 25 Best Leaders in the United States (U.S. News).
He has authored four bestselling books on the future of medicine: The Creative Destruction of Medicine, The Patient Will See You Now, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again, and his new book, Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity. At Substack, he publishes ‘Ground Truths’, a weekly newsletter and podcast on cutting-edge biomedical advances.
Details
Date
25 June @ 17:00 - 18:00 EEST
Venue
UNIC Athens, 29η Οδός Αρ. 17, Αθήνα, Ελληνικό, 167 77
