
7 April 2021, 07:00 – 08:30 PST, 11:00 – 12:30 EST / 15:00 to 16:30 CET
ARK Lectures
Keynote Speaker: João Pedro de Magalhães
Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool
Emerging opportunities in the business of longevity science
Professor João Pedro de Magalhães graduated in Microbiology in 1999 from the Escola Superior de Biotecnologia in his hometown of Porto, Portugal, and in 2004 obtained a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Namur in Belgium.
Following further training in genetics at Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA), in 2008 Prof de Magalhaes joined the University of Liverpool in the UK and established the Integrative Genomics of Ageing group
Internal Speaker: Svitlana Surodina
ARK Entrepreneur in Residence
Department of Informatics, Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences
Caloric restriction mimetics: commercialisation pathways of longevity innovation
Svitlana Surodina is the Entrepreneur in Residence at ARK where she supports commercialisation programmes and conducts research on technological ecosystems for investments in longevity innovation. Svitlana is also the CEO of Skein Group which includes the AI technology innovation company Skein and business accelerator Health-Tech space.
She is a member of Open Life Data working group at the UK All-Parliamentary Group for Longevity; holds the degree of Master of Business Administration from the University of Oxford and published academic research on the topics of AI for personal data collection, digital health and data system engineering. Her research at King’s is based in the Department of Informatics.