Tag: Funding

With the deadline for submissions just around the corner, Jamie Justice, Executive Director of XPRIZE HealthSpan, explains to researchers still on the fence why they should contact her team now but also why missing the deadline is not the end of the world. XPRIZE Foundation has been making history for 30 years with dozens of...

Crypto investor and founder Will Harborne will lead a new enterprise aimed at funding and supporting groundbreaking longevity technologies. From crypto to longevity The burgeoning field of longevity biotech is about to have a new player. Like many recent enterprises, such as Brian Armstrong’s NewLimit, this one is driven by someone coming from the crypto...

I first met Dr. Mehmood Khan in 2022 at the inaugural Longevity Summit Dublin, where organizers Aubrey de Grey and Martin O’Dea made a bold decision to include policy and advocacy discussions alongside the traditional focus on longevity research. Like many others in the audience, I was captivated by the forceful, engaging, and compelling one-man...

Hevolution, the Saudi-funded healthspan non-profit behemoth, has been around for about two years, and it hasn’t been wasting any time, funding research and investing in biotech companies. With its yearly budget touching 1 billion dollars, Hevolution is the biggest non-profit donor and one of the most important players in this field today. Hevolution touts a...

Gitcoin is a platform dedicated to supporting the development of open-source Web3 software - decentralized architecture based upon blockchain technology - and the funding of  "public goods" projects that are intended to benefit everyone. Of course, one such public good is the extension of healthy human lifespan, and accordingly, in its 12th funding round, the...

The National Institutes of Aging in the United States, a component of the National Institutes of Health, is funding clinical trials for interventions that directly affect the root causes of age-related diseases. Direct funding for trials against aging Probably the most important and interesting part of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is that the NIA...