Cancer and Aging: Convergent and Opposing Forces

In this episode, we preview the upcoming Forbeck Forum Cancer and Aging: Convergent and Opposing Forces, chaired by Alejo Efeyan, PhD (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas), and Nada Kalaany, PhD (Harvard Medical School). The conversation explores one of the most fundamental and unresolved questions in cancer research: how aging reshapes our biology in ways that can both suppress and promote cancer. Drawing on perspectives spanning metabolism, genetics, immunology, and systems physiology, this intimate, interdisciplinary forum brings together leading scientists from around the world to challenge assumptions, share early ideas, and spark new questions that could reshape how we study the connection between cancer and aging.