Matae Ahn was invited to speak at the Human Proteome Organization World Congress (HUPO2025) to share how we can learn from bats to better fight human aging and age-related diseases together on 13 November 2025

Linfa Wang has been invited to deliver a keynote lecture, “Lessons from Bats on Emerging Zoonotic Viruses and Biomedicine in General,” at the 10th International Conference on Emerging Zoonoses and Transboundary Diseases in June 2026.

On 17 June 2026, Linfa Wang presented a talk on ‘Bats, viruses and pandemics’ at the San Raffaele Institute in Milan.

Linfa Wang was invited to speak at an institutional seminar hosted by the University of Tokyo on 30 April 2026 on the topic “Bats, Viruses and Pandemics.”

Linfa Wang presented at the 41st World Veterinary Association Congress 2026, held in Tokyo, Japan, in April 2026. His presentation was titled “Bat-inspired immunity lessons for health.”

Bjoern Schumacher was the Vice-Chair for the Gordon Research Conference on Systems Aging that took place in June 2026 in Newry, Maine.

Bjoern Schumacher delivered the keynote lecture at the Novo Nordisk Lighthouse Innovation Summit 2026.

Bjoern Schumacher in a TV documentary on aging research and online biological age self-tests.

Bjoern Schumacher presented his research at the 3rd MIA Portugal Ageing Spring School from the 13th to the 15th May 2026.

David Meyer was awarded the Klaus Leibrecht prize of the University of Cologne