Targeting Metabesity 2019, co-chaired by Kinexum Executive Chairman Zan Fleming and Stanford Professor Larry Steinman (a co-discoverer of Tysabri), will take place October 15-16, 2019, at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC, see https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/targeting-metabesity-2019-thomas-seoh/.
Emerging science over the past couple decades suggests that many chronic diseases of aging (including diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, cancer and the aging process itself) have common metabolic roots, and thus may be susceptible to common solutions. We believe we are at a similar stage to the cusp of the moonshot, or the human genome project, where the science is accumulating, but alignment of policy and socioeconomic factors may be needed, in order to enable and facilitate the translation of such science into material, accessible gains in public health.