TransVision Madrid 2025 Summit: Blasco, Magalhães, Crespo-Barrios, Muñoz-Espín, Coles, Hartenstein

TransVision Madrid 2025 Summit: Blasco, Magalhães, Crespo-Barrios, Muñoz-Espín, Coles, Hartenstein

Author: KGRA Digital Broadcasting November 10, 2025 Duration: 1:53:51
On Sunday, November 9, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch the stream of six presentations from the TransVision Madrid 2025 International Longevity Summit from six distinguished researchers in various aspects of the fight against aging, as well as a question-and-answer session. These presentations transpired on International Longevity Day, October 1, 2025.
The presentations included in this compilation stream include the following:
- Maria Blasco, Director of CNIO, Spain’s National Cancer Research Center, presented on telomere shortening and the enzyme telomerase.
- João Pedro de Magalhães, Chair of Molecular Biogerontology at the University of Birmingham, Chief Science Officer of YouthBio Therapeutics, presented on the subject of “The Science of Ageing and the Future of Longevity”.
- José Crespo-Barrios, CEO of Regeneratics, presented on anti-atherogenics, angioregenerative therapies, and possible applications for treating COVID and Long COVID. He invited Dr. Israel Pichardo-Casas, Chief Scientific Officer of Legacy Lyfe Labs LLC to also give a brief virtual presentation, entitled “Validating the AI Model to Test Biologics as Therapeutic Targets”.
- Daniel Muñoz-Espín, Professor and Group Leader in Cancer Early Detection at the University of Cambridge, discussed the role of senescence in lung cancer and aging, as well as novel senotherapeutic and detection tools, and also discussed transient reprogramming as an antitumorigenic therapy.
- Natalie Coles, Director of Supercentenarian Research at the LEV Foundation, discussed her work in sampling biological data of supercentenarians, highlighting the case of Maria Branyas (1907-2024), who had been the world’s oldest woman from January 17, 2023, until August 19, 2024.  
- Lars Hartenstein of McKinsey Health Institute provided a presentation on “Longevity and Healthier Cities – Madrid”, discussing possible contributing factors to Madrid having become the world’s most longevous city.
The U.S. Transhumanist Party thanks TransVision Madrid and its fellow transhumanist political party in Spain, Alianza Futurista, for providing the means to offer these presentations to our audience.
Visit the website of TransVision Madrid: https://www.transvisionmadrid.com/
Visit the website of Alianza Futurista: https://www.alianzafuturista.com/

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