BRITAIN’S LEADING AGEING RESEARCH CONFERENCE
In 2026, the BSRA is pleased to host its 75th Annual Scientific Meeting on the Biology of Ageing at the University of Oxford between 9th and 11th September.
Venue: The conference will be held in the heart of Oxford at Keble College, offering a beautiful environment, spacious networking, exhibition and refreshment areas and the O’Reilly lecture theatre for up to 250 delegates.
Registrations will open on 1 March 2026
Abstract deadline: 15 June 2026
For any queries including registration, attendance, speaking, exhibiting at or sponsoring the meeting, please contact the conference lead Dr Ira Milosevic at ASM@bsra.org.uk.
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Confirmed speakers include:
- Professor Ana Maria Cuervo (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, US)
- Professor John Hardy (University College London, UK)
- Professor Dag Aarsland (King’s College London, UK)
- Professor Anne Schaefer (Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany)
- Professor Gerald Shadel (Salk Insitute, US)
- Professor Guang-hui Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Professor Valter Longo (University of Southern California), giving this year’s Public Lecture
- Professor KJ Patel (University of Oxford)
This list will be updated regularly in the weeks to come, so watch this space!
How does submission of abstracts work?
Amongst other sessions, our programme has a total of 5 oral sessions which are structured in the following format:
- Invited speaker (~25 mins)
- Elevated speaker (~10 mins)
- Elevated speaker (~10 mins)
- Elevated speaker (~10 mins)
- Invited speaker (~25 mins)
During abstract submission, you will be asked if you would like to be considered for an oral presentation or remain as a poster. A small number of submissions will be selected by the Board of Trustees for a 10 minute elevated oral presentation and you will be informed in advance of the outcome. For the first 3 of the 5 oral sessions (on days 1 and 2), the elevated oral presentations will be predominantly from early career researchers, who will then be eligible for the Korenchevsky prize. The Korenchevsky prize is awarded each year to the best early career researcher elevated oral presentation and is a paid trip to present their work at the American Ageing Association (AGE) annual meeting in the US in May 2026. The winner will be presented with their award at the conference dinner on the evening of day 2. Poster awards will be presented to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. This year, we will have 2 poster receptions.
Poster Guidelines
- Portrait (not landscape)
- A0 as a maximum size
Elevated Oral Guidelines
- 7 minutes in length
- up to 3 minutes for questions
- Standard lecture hall podium setup with a Windows computer will be available for PowerPoint slides