About the Conference Organizers

The Targeting Metabesity conferences are co-organized by Kinexum and The Kitalys Institute. Kinexum is a company devoted to bringing scientific advancements through the regulatory process. The Kitalys Institute is a not-for-profit organization formed to engage in a range of activities to accelerate and facilitate the translation of cutting-edge science into the material, accessible gains in public health. The Institute is a leader in the healthy longevity and healthspan movement. Your company deserves to be a part of this rewarding mission. Participating in the Targeting Metabesity conferences is a great way to get connected with and become a leader in this effort!

A 501(c)(3) in Formation

About The Kitalys Institute​

The catalyst for the formation of the Institute is the emergence of geroscience in recent decades that holds the promise of preventing or delaying chronic diseases by delaying or even reversing biological aging. The mission of The Kitalys Institute is to accelerate and promote the translation of scientific advances into material, accessible gains in public health.

Institute principles of the Kitalys Institute in pursuit of our mission include: 

• Proceeding in an evidence-backed manner based on best science
• Casting the net wider as to modality, whether drugs, biologics, advanced therapies, devices (including diagnostics and digital tools for cognitive behavioral modification), nutritional supplementation, exercise, stress reduction, socialization, and/or other approaches
• Focusing on application and translation, not just increasing knowledge
• Promoting a broad, "silo-busting," interdisciplinary approach to addressing the barriers and challenges
• Stressing translation that materially moves the needle in terms of public health, and
• Achieving broad and equitable access to the resulting public health benefits.

The Institute carries out its mission through activities
​such as: 

• Organizing conferences, webcasts, courses, online communities, publications, and similar vehicles for the identification of issues, debate, and exchange of views, and delivery of solutions to the relevant fields, policymakers, and the public; 
• Conducting or funding research, issuing, or commissioning white papers, establishing prizes and engaging in other activities of a think tank to support, elucidate, recognize, publicize and educate; 
• Collaborating in partnership with individuals and other institutions and entities in furtherance of its aims and activities; 
• Fundraising and expending sums of money in support of its objectives; and
• Carrying out such other activities in support of its mission as is consistent with its status as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit institute.

The possibility of reversing biological age both physically and cognitively is not science fiction. It is here!

Help Us Advance the Cause: ​Healthy Longevity for All!

Our mission of Healthy Longevity for All is made possible through the generosity of supporters such as yourself. Please consider donating to the Kitalys Institute to help with funding future conferences and aid in our mission to accelerate scientific advancements into gains in public health. Thank you!

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The History of Life Expectancy is Changing

The Population Reference Bureau projected that the number of Americans Ages 65+ will double from 2014 to 2060, becoming one quarter of the total U.S. population (PRB Population Bulletin Vol. 70, No. 2, 2015). The global population is aging as well.

Scientific advances are being made at an ever-increasing pace. However, barriers to the speedy adoption of gero-advances to improve public health effect everyone. The ultimate goal of longer, healthy aging is retarded by:

• Uncertainty in regulation and policy;
• Misalignment of incentives;
• Lack of knowledge and coordination across age-related disciplines;
• Incomplete education about and absence of public debate regarding longevity advances, their translation, and their societal implications.

​Global population by broad age groups, 1990-2050 (percentage)

Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019.

Imagine the Economic Impact!

Without healthy longevity:

• ​Coronavirus could cost $4.1 Trillion, or almost 5% of global GDP.
• Alzheimer's could cost $100 Billion today, $400 Billion by 2050.
• In less than 10 years, more than 300,000 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed annually — a 5% increase since 2004.
• By 2050, more than 1 million Americans will have a first stroke — an increase of 140% for women and 167% for men.

           Aging Analytics

​What if there were a Community that could -- within our lifetime -- harness the power of gero-protection advances to bring about clear regulatory pathway for approval of therapeutic interventions, attract funding for right-sized clinical trials, and better align incentives for a payer to reimburse an intervention today that may benefit another reimburser years later? The Kitalys Institute is that community.