KPA: Aging associated Diseases
The accelerating demographic change towards an increasingly aging society poses urgent socio-economic and health challenges with consequences across all sectors of public life. Addressing these interconnected dynamics requires new approaches and measures in society at large across the politics medicine, health care, economics etc. to ensure that future societies age in an equitable and sustainable way.
At the workshop, the funded projects from the KPA AGING seed funding call will be presented. In addition we would like to discuss a new research initiative "Lonelineness and togetherness" headed by Kai Vogeley.
PROGRAM
- 09:00 Welcome: Björn Schumacher
- 09:00 –10:00 Introduction of the 4 funded projects of the seed funding call 2026
- Shaping individual trajectories to Alzheimer`s Disease by social orientation (M. Bergami, E. Dzwiza-Ohlsen)
- Parental meta-inflammatory determinants of intergenerational inheritance: how obese parents predispose
the offspring for aging and disease (G. Zaffagnini, M. Alejandre Alcázar, D. Meyer, T. Groten)
- Loneliness, Social Participation and Healthy Aging in Urban Neighborhoods -
A Participatory Feasibility Study (URBAN-AGE) (N. Skoetz, L. Ellwardt)
- Combining longitudinal analysis accross key organs to define when and where age-associated dysfuntions
emerge (M. Corrado, C. Frezza)
- 10:00 – 10:15 Introduction of new members with Coffee
- 10:15 – 11:30 Conception of a collaborative research project on "Loneliness and togetherness„ (K. Vogeley)
Introduction by Kay Vogeley, pitches by interested scientists & discussion
- 11:30–12:00 Wrap up and next steps
PARTICIPANTS
- Prof. M. Alejandre Alcazar, Dept. of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, CMMC
- Prof. Matteo Bergami, CECAD
- Dr. Mauro Corrado, Institute for Genetics (UoC), SFB 1218 & CMMC
- Dr. Erik Dzwiza-Ohlsen, Husserl Archives Cologne / ceres, UoC
- Prof. Lea Ellwardt, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, UoC
- Prof. Christian Frezza , CECAD
- Prof. Tanja Groten, Faculty of Medicine, UoC
- Dr. David Meyer, CECAD
- Prof. Björn Schumacher, CECAD
- Prof. Nicole Skoetz, Institute of Public Health, UoC
- Prof. Kai Vogeley, Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; AG Social Cognition, ceres group, UoC
- Dr. Gabriele Zaffagnini, Institute for Genetics / Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UoC