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Longevity Websites

By Floris WolswijkPublished 3 min read
In brief

An early, explicitly incomplete directory of longevity research groups, companies, nonprofits, websites, and blogs. Short descriptions cover work ranging from funding and reporting to drug development, data, and public advocacy.

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