The International Centenarian Consortium (ICC) is a group of centenarian researchers from around the world who have met every year since 1994. The purpose of these meetings is to share recent information and research on centenarians and to foster collaboration among different centenarian research teams.

Accomplishments of the ICC include:

• Sharing of research ideas and results
• Development of joint research protocol
• Joint grant proposal writing
• Joint publications (books and special issues)

Since 1994, the International Centenarian Consortium have met to share recent information and research on centenarians and to foster collaboration among different centenarian research teams.

The first discussion of forming an international consortium of centenarian researchers was held at the XV International Congress of Gerontology in Acapulco in 1989 where Leonard W. Poon and Peter Martin representing the Georgia Centenarian Study at University of Georgia met with Bo Hagberg who represented the Swedish Centenarian Study at the University of Lund, Sweden.

A follow-up meeting was held at the XVI International Congress of Gerontology in Budapest in 1993 with representatives from the Georgia, Hungarian, Japanese, Swedish centenarian studies. The first meeting of the ICC was held in 1994 in a farmhouse in U. S. Georgia with representatives from the French, Georgia, Hungarian, Japanese, and Swedish Centenarian Studies.

Additional meetings were held in Lund, Heidelberg, Tokyo, Honolulu, Hano, Seoul, Atlanta, Paris, Cuba, Hong Kong, and Osaka. Meetings were also organized as part of the International Congress of Gerontology in Paris, Vancouver and Rio de Janeiro, and as part of the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in Boston and Cincinnati.

Adopted from https://research.hs.iastate.edu/international-centenarian-consortium/about-us/

• 1^st Congress

• Place: Athens, USA
• Date: 1994
• Chairman: Leonard W. Poon
• Hosted by: University of Georgia Gerontology Center

• 2^nd Congress

• Place: University of Lund, Sweden
• Date: 1995
• Chairman: Bo Hagberg
• Hosted by: Swedish Centenarian Study

• 3^rd Congress

• Place: Heidelberg, Germany
• Date: 1996
• Chairman: Peter Martin
• Hosted by: Ursula Lehr
  Heidelberg Centenarian Study

• 4^th Congress

• Place: Fontevraud, France
• Date: 1996
• Chairman: Michel Allard
• Hosted by: the Ipsen Foundation, French Centenarian Study
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• 5^th Congress

• Place: Cincinnati, USA
• Date: 1997
• Chairman: Leonard W. Poon
• Hosted by: Meeting at the Gerontological Society of America

• 6^th Congress

• Place: Bäckaskog, Sweden
• Date: 1998
• Chairman: Bo Hagberg
• Hosted by: The Lund University, Gerontology Research Center Swedish Centenarian Study
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• 7^th Congress

• Place: Hirschhorn, Germany
• Date: 1999
• Chairman: Peter Martin
• Hosted by: Heidelberg Centenarian Study
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• 8^th Congress

• Place: Vancouver, Canada
• Date: 2001
• Chairman: Leonard W. Poon
• Hosted by: Meeting at the International Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG)
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• 9^th Congress

• Place: Boston, USA
• Date: 2002
• Chairman: Leonard W. Poon
• Hosted by: Meeting at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA)

• 10^th Congress

• Place: Honolulu, USA
• Date: 2003
• Chairman: David Curb
• Hosted by: Honolulu Asia Aging Study
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• 11^th Congress

• Place: Hanö, Sweden
• Date: 2004
• Chairman: Bo Hagberg
• Hosted by: Swedish Centenarian Study
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• 12^th Congress

• Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Date: 2005
• Chairman: Leonard W. Poon and Grace da Rosa
• Hosted by: Meeting at the International Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG)
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• 13^th Congress

• Place: Sunchung, Korea
• Date: 2006
• Chairman: Sang Chul Park
• Hosted by: Korean Centenarian Study

• 14^th Congress

• Place: Atlanta, USA
• Date: 2008
• Chairman: Leonard W. Poon
• Hosted by: Georgia Centenarian Study

• 20th Georgia Centenarian Study Celebration

• 15^th Congress

• Place: Paris, France
• Date: 2009
• Chairman: Jean-Marie Robine
• Hosted by: French Centenarian Study, 2009 International Congress of Gerontology

• 16^th Congress

• Place: Havana, Cuba
• Date: 2010
• Chairman: Michel Poulain
• Hosted by: Cuban Centenarian Study
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• 17^th Congress

• Place: Hong Kong
• Date: 2011
• Chairman: Karen Siu-Lan Cheung
• Hosted by: Hong Kong Centenarian Study
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• 18^th Congress

• Place: Hanö, Sweden
• Date: 2012
• Chairman: Bo Hagberg
• Hosted by: Swedish Centenarian Study
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• 19^th Congress

• Place: Sunchung, Korea
• Date: 2013
• Chairman: Sang Chul Park
• Hosted by: Korean Centenarian Study

• 20^th Congress

• Place: Osaka, Japan
• Date: 2014
• Chairman: Yasuyuki Gondo and Nobuyoshi Hirose
• Hosted by: Gerontology Consortium, Osaka University, Jointly Hosted by Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University & Center for Supercentenarian Research, Keio University

• 21^st Congress

• Place: Sardinia, Italy
• Date: 2015
• Chairman:Michel Poulain
• Hosted by: Sardinia Blue Zones Study
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• 22^nd Congress

• Place: Porto, Portugal
• Date: 2016
• Chairman: Oscar Ribeiro and Constança Paúl
• Hosted by: Portuguese Centenarian Study

• 23^rd Congress

• Place: University California, Santa Cruz, USA
• Date: 2017
• Chairman: Leonard W. Poon and Peter Martin
• Hosted by: Georgia Centenarian Study

• 24^th Congress

• Place: Sydney, Australia
• Date: 2018
• Chairman: Perminder Sachdev and Henry Brodaty
• Hosted by: Sydney Centenarian Study

• 25^th Congress

• Place: Lausanne, Switzerland
• Date: 2019
• Chairman: Daniela Jopp
• Hosted by: Swiss Centenarian Study
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• 26^th Congress

• Place: Tokyo via Zoom due to COVID
• Date: 2021
• Chairman: Yasumichi Arai
• Hosted by: Keio University, Osaka University, Tokyo Centenarian Study

• 27^th Congress

• Place: Marstrand, Sweden
• Date: 2021
• Chairman: Ingmar Skoog
• Hosted by: Swedish Centenarian Study
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• 28^th Congress

• Place: Texel, Netherlands
• Date: 2023
• Chairman: Henne Holstege
• Hosted by: 100-plus Studies

• 29^th Congress

• Place: Brewster, MA, USA
• Date: 2024
• Chairman: Thomas Perls
• Hosted by: New England Centenarian Study, and supported by the Academy for Health and Lifespan Research
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• 30^th Congress

• Place: Gochang, Korea
• Date: 2026
• Chairman: Kwangsung Park
• Hosted by: Korean Centenarian Study
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