SUMMA Symposium

Geschiedenis

The SUMMA Symposium is organized every year by a group of enthusiastic students. Since SUMMA is a graduate medicine course, which focuses both on clinical practice and fundamental research, the symposium aims at making a link between patient care and basic scientific inquiry.

The topic of the symposium changes every year and this time it is Fountain of Youth: the biological process of aging and the therapeutics to delay, arrest, or even reverse it. The choice to focus on senescence is because it a rising interest in the medical world. What are the mechanisms behind aging and should we consider these processes pathological?

The SUMMA symposium is meant to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the body-mind relationship, shedding light on a vastly unexplored territory. Both Dutch and international speakers with different backgrounds will present their research and findings on this occasion, making for an interesting day and providing us with food for thought.

Don’t miss the SUMMA Symposium 2017, “Fountain of Youth: the biological process of aging and the therapeutics to delay, arrest, or even reverse it”, which will take place on the 20th of June 2017 at the Universiteitsweg 98, Utrecht, form 9:00AM til 4:30PM.