ARDD - Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting
13th edition. CORRECTED 2026-08-25: the row previously carried 24-28 August 2026 in Copenhagen, which is the date and city aggregators still show. RE-READ 2026-09-09 against agingpharma.org itself, which now states every element directly: the home page says "Welcome to the 13th Aging Research and Drug Discovery Meeting" and "Main Program, October 1-3", the location page says "Online at agingpharma.org" and "On-site at the David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University", and the registration page says "October 1-3, 2026" and "David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University, Boston". The venue no longer rests on third-party coverage. Tracks include a Longevity Medicine Forum on October 1. THE MOVE: the Copenhagen edition was cancelled in March 2026, which is fact. The reason is NOT: longevity.technology reported on 2026-03-18 that Morten Scheibye-Knudsen announced on LinkedIn that "ARDD 2026 in Copenhagen is canceled" and that the University of Copenhagen "would not be able to host the conference in the current form". The university's motive was never made public and is not asserted here. Poster abstract submission closed on August 31 with decisions announced in September, recorded here because the sheet carries no abstract_deadline column. RE-READ 2026-09-19, every element confirmed again and the Boston attribution settled from the organiser rather than inferred: the registration page states verbatim "October 1-3, 2026 David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University, Boston", so Boston is the organiser's own word and not a reading of the Allston address. The location page gives "20 Western Avenue, Allston" and adds a second on-site building, One Milestone at 1 Milestone Street, alongside "Online at agingpharma.org". Chairs listed: Vadim Gladyshev Executive Chair, Harvard Medical School. The aggregator layer has NOT corrected itself; see the events verification pass of 2026-09-19. RE-READ 2026-09-29: every element unchanged on agingpharma.org (13th meeting; October 1-3, 2026; David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University, Boston; online at agingpharma.org). The registration page now reads Registration closed for on-site attendance and offers a Virtual Ticket at $49 for online livestreaming of all speaker sessions and workshops. No Copenhagen listing remained in the row; nothing to replace.
The world's largest dedicated aging-science meeting, and in 2026 it left Copenhagen for Harvard. Where epigenetic clocks, senolytics and longevity drug programmes get argued in front of the people who run them. This is the science layer of the category, not the marketing layer.
Editorial note
Highest scientific relevance + TruDiagnostic Atlas link.
Atlas organizations taking part 1
Further reading
Where Is ARDD 2026? A short answer page on where and when the 2026 meeting runs, read from the organizer's own site, with the Copenhagen dates that third-party calendars still carried.