Symposium on Aging Research (SoAR) 2025 | Network for Aging Research

SoAR 2025 recap

SoAR 2025 took place April 29, 2025. Keep an eye out for future SoAR events by following us on Instagram!

Thank you to all the students, researchers, and community members who made the event a great success!

A student presents their poster to a group at the Symposium on Aging Research 2025.

The keynote lecture at the Symposium on Aging Research 2025.

A student presents their work in lecture format at the Symposium on Aging Research 2025.

The audience listening to a presentation at the Symposium on Aging Research 2025.

Keynote speaker: Dr. Soo Chan Carusone

Soo Chan Carusone will present alongside older adult partners from the McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging. Donna, Mike, Penelope and Subhash will share their wisdom, experience, and expertise: as older adults, as health care consumers, partners in research, and incredible humans. Soo Chan Carusone completed her PhD in health research methods and then spent 10 years doing research at an HIV hospital where she learned from “experts by experience” to reimagine health and health research.

Together, at the McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging, the team champions aging research that centers the voices of people with lived experience and build capacity for aging research to be conducted in partnership with older adults.