{"id":140759,"date":"2022-06-18T13:22:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T18:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/saudi-arabia-pledges-1-billion-a-year-to-anti-aging-research"},"modified":"2022-06-18T13:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T18:22:33","slug":"saudi-arabia-pledges-1-billion-a-year-to-anti-aging-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/saudi-arabia-pledges-1-billion-a-year-to-anti-aging-research","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Pledges $1 Billion a Year to Anti-Aging Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/saudi-arabia-pledges-1-billion-a-year-to-anti-aging-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Beginnings of a biotechnology revolution in Saudi Arabia?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Saudi royal family, led by king Salman bin Abdulaziz have announced the formation of a non-profit research foundation which intends to spend $1 billion of the countries considerable annual oil revenue on supporting anti-aging research. If such funding materialises, it will make Saudi Arabia the single greatest financial contributor to longevity research.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi royal family aims to distribute this funding through a non-profit organisation called the <a href=\"https:\/\/hevolutionfoundation.com\/en\/w\/introducing-the-hevolution-foundation\" runtime_url=\"https:\/\/hevolutionfoundation.com\/en\/w\/introducing-the-hevolution-foundation\" type=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">Hevolution Foundation<\/a> 0, which was founded by Dr Mehmood Khan, formerly of the Mayo Clinic. In a formal introduction to the Hevolution Foundation, Dr Khan had the following to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beginnings of a biotechnology revolution in Saudi Arabia? The Saudi royal family, led by king Salman bin Abdulaziz have announced the formation of a non-profit research foundation which intends to spend $1 billion of the countries considerable annual oil revenue on supporting anti-aging research. If such funding materialises, it will make Saudi Arabia the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":626,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,45,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-finance","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140759","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\/626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}