Meetings

A high-level scientific panel moderated by the Financial Times titled: “How the human exposome will unlock better health and medicine”, gathers three leaders of the Global Exposome Forum from the United States and Europe, to brief delegates from the global scientific community on progress made since its launch in Washington D.C. in May, 2025.

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is pleased to announce that Aviv Regev, PhD, Head of Research and Early Development at Genentech, will serve as a keynote speaker at the ISSCR 2026 Annual Meeting, co-sponsored by STEMCELL Technologies. The meeting will take place 8-11 July 2026 in Montréal, Canada.

Dr. Regev will speak during the Plenary Session, Tissue Stem Cells in Physiology and Disease, which will explore the mechanisms that drive tissue remodeling, adaptation, and regeneration in both healthy and diseased states.

The 4^th Annual Symposium of Project CHANGE, which is the Kawasaki activity of the national project “COI-NEXT” by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology/Japan Science and Technology Agency, will be held at 1:30 pm – 5:10 pm on March 5 (Japan Standard Time) at the Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion Hall. This event will also be streamed online, so please be sure to watch it.

Longevity science may be entering a conceptual turning point. Instead of searching for a single “anti-aging” intervention, researchers are increasingly asking a different question: What if aging is not a defect, but a progressive loss of coordination between biological systems?

The Horizon Europe project B-Cubed is organising a training series on turning biodiversity data into insights using tools developed by the project 

On January 21, 2026, the iEnergy Frontier Forum and Editorial Board Meeting was successfully held in Hong Kong. The event gathered over 50 global experts to discuss cutting-edge topics in energy, such as AI and sustainable materials, and charted the journal's future course toward becoming a leading international academic platform in the field of power and energy.

Insilico Medicine announced its participation in the World Health Expo 2026 (WHX 2026), held from February 9–12 at the Dubai Exhibition Centre，Booth S19J30 (Emirates Health) at South Hall

The 9th HKU Quarterly Forum on Chinese Economy, hosted by HKU Business School’s Institute of China Economy (ICE), in partnership with the Hong Kong Alumni Association of China’s Central University of Finance and Economics, was held on 29 January. This was the first Forum of the series in 2026, where renowned experts and scholars discussed breakthroughs in China’s macroeconomy, key issues emerging from the development of artificial intelligence, trade and finance matters such as the renminbi exchange rate, and others. Held at HKU iCube in Central, Hong Kong, the Forum attracted an audience of more than 200 industry leaders, academic experts, alumni, and students oniste, and more than 10,000 who attended online.