{"id":128356,"date":"2021-09-30T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T22:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/1b-longevity-fund-launches-to-pursue-120-lifespan"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T22:22:24","slug":"1b-longevity-fund-launches-to-pursue-120-lifespan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/1b-longevity-fund-launches-to-pursue-120-lifespan","title":{"rendered":"$1B longevity fund launches to pursue 120+ lifespan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/1b-longevity-fund-launches-to-pursue-120-lifespan2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>$100 million a year. All you gotta do is apply for funding.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A consortium of biotech founders, clinicians, and leading longevity research institutions announced today the launch of the<a href=\"https:\/\/longevity.foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Longevity Science Foundation<\/a>. The new Swiss foundation has committed to distributing more than $1 billion over the next ten years to research, institutions and projects advancing healthy human longevity and extending the healthy human lifespan to more than 120 years.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Longevity. Technology: The Foundation is advised by a aptly-named \u201cVisionary Board\u201d of leading longevity researchers, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevity.technology\/found-the-missing-link-the-longevity-supply-chain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evelyne Bischof<\/a> and joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevity.technology\/rejuvenate-biomed-bags-e3-2m-for-healthy-aging-rd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrea B Maier<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevity.technology\/exclusive-profile-the-buck-institutes-eric-verdin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Verdin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevity.technology\/the-first-true-clinical-trial-for-longevity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Kaeberlein<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevity.technology\/exclusive-interview-with-alex-zhavoronkov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Zhavoronkov<\/a>, all key opinion leaders who be top picks for a longevity dream team. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We love the bold and simple drive of the fund\u2013 projects that can realise rapid change, making \u201ca significant difference in people\u2019s lives as soon as possible\u201d and setting a hopeful goal of possibly effecting that difference within a five-year time frame.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Longevity Science Foundation will provide funding to promising longevity research institutions and groups around the world. The focus of the Foundation will be to select support projects in four major areas of healthy longevity medicine and tech \u2013 therapeutics, personalised medicine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevity.technology\/ai-fast-tracks-human-longevity-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI<\/a> and predictive diagnostics. The Foundation is seeking to fund projects that can make a significant difference in people\u2019s lives as soon as possible \u2013 even within five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$100 million a year. All you gotta do is apply for funding. A consortium of biotech founders, clinicians, and leading longevity research institutions announced today the launch of the Longevity Science Foundation. The new Swiss foundation has committed to distributing more than $1 billion over the next ten years to research, institutions and projects advancing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}