Longevity Websites
In my first exploration of longevity, I’m looking at who is doing what already. Here is an (incomplete) list:
Websites/Community/Non-profit
https://www.sens.org/ – SENS Research Foundation, research, education, outreach
https://www.lifespan.io/ – Website for funding research projects, blogs, and a great Rejuvenation Roadmap
https://www.reddit.com/r/longevity/top/?t=week – Subreddit for longvity, good (read: critical) comments (sorted by new)
https://neo.life/ – Original reporting on ageing (and a bit wider), by Jane Metcalfe, found via this article on Longevity as the greatest investment
https://www.longevity.international/ – Online platform, under construction, backed by Longevity International Consortium, Biogerontology Research Foundation, Aging Analytics Agency and Deep Knowledge Life Sciences, good overviews (summary here)
Companies
http://www.gerostatealpha.com/ – Gerostate Alpha – 3 well-known researchers
https://www.calicolabs.com/ – Calico, backed by Alphabet, no products, some turnover, $1.5b research center
https://verily.com/ – Verily, backed by Alphabet, $1.8b funding, work on monitoring, interventions, precise medicine (not root causes?)
https://unitybiotechnology.com/ – Unity Biotech, developing medicines that potentially halt, slow or reverse age-associated diseases, while restoring human health. Senolytic medicines
https://www.springdisc.com/ – Spring Discovery, machine learning for ageing research, $18m+ funding
https://insilico.com/ – Insilico Medicine, artificial intelligence for drug discovery, biomarker development & ageing research
https://www.longevity.vc/ – Longevity Fund, venture capital investing in longevity research
https://www.juvenescence.ai/ – Juvenescence, drug development and artificial intelligence (AI) company focused on ageing and age-related diseases. (parent company)
Other
https://ourworldindata.org/ – Research and interactive data visualizations to understand the world’s largest problems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_life_extension – Wikipedia overview, and here an index of related topics
https://www.ldeming.com/longevityfaq#explanation – Laura Demin (Longevity Fund) explanation of ageing research
https://www.bluezones.com/ – Based on the Blue Zones (where people live long), correlation?, and only small effect
Older / Less Active
http://aginginmotion.org/blog/ – Advancing research and treatment of sarcopenia and age-related functional decline
https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/index-to-this-blog/ – Blog by Josh Mitteldorf (started September 2012)
http://act-ad.org/ – Accelerate Cure / Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease
https://agingportfolio.org/ – Knowledge bank on ageing research, from 2011 (not active?)
https://www.agingresearch.org/about-us/ – Aliance for aging research (founded in 1986), infographic
http://www.anti-agingfirewalls.com/ – A weblog on the sciences and practices of living healthily very long by Vince Giuliano
http://www.brainpreservation.org/ – Brain Preservation Foundation (BPF), whole brain preservation (price, mammal brain preserved)
https://www.crsociety.org/ – Caloric restriction, old forum (still active), with some good posts
http://ageing-research.blogspot.com/ – Cellular Senescence blog – last post start 2018
More Organisations
https://www.afar.org/ – American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), business organisation (B2B)/promoter, metformin trail
https://www.asaging.org/ – American Society on Aging, business organisation (B2B), more focus on quality of life
https://www.americanagingassociation.org/ – American Aging Association, business organisation (B2B), dedicated to understanding the basic mechanisms of aging in order to enable humankind to preserve and restore functions typically lost to age-related degeneration, and to extend the healthy human lifespan, linked to AFAR
https://www.a4m.com/ – American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), also Metabolic Medical Institute (MMI)
https://alliancerm.org/ – Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM), development of safe and effective regenerative medicines and advanced therapies worldwide
http://bsra.org.uk/ – British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA), promotion an d funding for causes and effects of ageing
http://www.cellage.org/ – CellAge, destroy aged cells, didn’t get of the ground?
https://www.churchofperpetuallife.org/ – Church of Perpetual Life (faith in technology, interesting/old website)
http://www.rlecoalition.com/ – Coalition for Radical Life Extension, conferences on radical life extension
https://www.cohbar.com/ – CohBar is a clinical stage biotechnology company whose mission is to increase healthy lifespan by developing treatments for the underlying metabolic dysfunction driving the diseases of ageing
https://dogagingproject.org/ – Dog Aging Project, study of ageing in dogs with rapamycin as possible drug