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Helena Slaets, PhD, is an assistant professor at BIOMED, Hasselt University, Belgium, specializing in immune aging and cellular senescence. During her PhD, she studied neuropoietic cytokines in multiple sclerosis. She did a postdoc at the Heinrich-Heine University, Germany. At Jessa clinical laboratory, she validated diagnostic tests for autoimmune diseases. She managed an Interreg EMR project on immune aging, leading to a European patent, and initiated research on exercise interventions' impact on immunosenescence. She also founded the Healthy Aging Research Consortium to unify aging research and facilities at Health Campus Diepenbeek and teaches Immunology at Hasselt University.