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CV NEWS FEED // The Vatican will host its first-ever Longevity Summit March 24, bringing together scientists and experts from around the world to discuss aging and quality of life in the context of the Jubilee of Hope 2025 and today’s world.
According to the Summit’s website, the event is sponsored by the Pontifical Academy for Life. Two Nobel laureates, Shyn’ya Yamanaka, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine, and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will give lectures, and several other scientists and experts on the subjects of health and longevity will host roundtable discussions.
The summit promises to “address a crucial challenge of our time: ensuring sustainable aging and a future where the quality and length of life coexist.” According to a statement from the Pontifical Academy for Life, the summit will also focus on how to promote “healthy, sustainable, and integral aging.”
“The summit, organized as part of the Jubilee of Hope 2025, provides a unique opportunity to explore the most advanced scientific findings and to reflect on the fundamental ethical values that guide research in this field,” the statement said.
The summit is the first event in a new project led by the Vatican to study “integral human longevity” and promote a model of long life that balances quality, science, ethics, and dignity, according to the statement.
“This summit represents not only a scientific reflection, but a call to consider aging as an ethical responsibility and an extraordinary opportunity for innovation for the common good,” the statement explained.
The summit was created by Alberto Carrara, president of the International Institute of Neurobioethics, and the late Viviana Kasam, the former president of BrainCircle Italia, who passed away in October 2024.
