18th Key Symposium、Date：May 11-13, 2023、Venue：OIST

Thank you very much for joining us for the 18th Key Symposium of the Journal of Internal Medicine (JIM) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences "Longevity and healthy ageing: What can we learn from Blue Zones?" which took place on May 12-13 2023 at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.

Despite being postponed two years in a row due to COVID-19, we are happy to inform you that the meeting was an outstanding success with 223 registered participants and roughly 178 on-site participants.

In addition, JIM is happy to announce the availability of the complete video recordings of the meeting's sessions as well as the conference report, published review articles, and more found here.

We wish to once again thank all participants and speakers who joined us on-site or online and extend our sincerest appreciation to everyone who contributed to the meeting.

Olle Melander, Lund University and Editor Journal of Internal Medicine
Akiko Kishi Svensson, The University of Tokyo
Thomas Svensson, The University of Tokyo

Organized by:

Officially Endorsed by:
The Japanese Association of Medical Sciences

Background: The Key Symposia are organised by the Journal of Internal Medicine and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. These international meetings, within the research areas at the forefront of internal medicine, are arranged in honour of Professor Axel Key, who was a member of the Academy and chairman of Karolinska Institutet in the mid-19th century, and a pioneer in clinical medicine. He was also the founder of the first Swedish medical journal Medicinskt Archiv, later Acta Medica Scandinavica and, since 1989, Journal of Internal Medicine (JIM).