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Organization Description
The Methuselah Foundation is a non-profit 501c(3) organization committed to the acceleration of progress toward a cure for age-related disease, disability, suffering, and death.
Aging is a thief that robs the world of its most precious resource, the wisdom and experience embodied in each human life, while placing increasing burdens on already strained healthcare systems. The application of technology to the diseases of the young has resulted in many more individuals surviving to enjoy life at ages rarely achieved in human history. It is now time to develop a new generation of medical therapies to cure the diseases emerging with longer life as a result of the biological aging process.
The ultimate goal of the Foundation is nothing less than the defeat of age-related disease and the indefinite extension of the healthy human lifespan. Supported through the private donations of individuals and organizations who share this common vision, the Foundation has become an agent of change, replacing traditionally resigned attitudes towards the suffering caused by aging with a new sense of purpose.
The Foundation funds two major research projects to hasten the development of genuine anti-aging biomedicine. The first is the Methuselah Mouse Prize (Mprize), a competitive research prize for the successful extension of healthy lifespan in the laboratory mouse. Competitors for the Mprize are racing to be the first to develop real anti-aging therapies, generating a multiplier effect that increases the total amount of research aimed at cures for biological aging. At the same time, the excitement of the competition is attracting attention to the potential for slowing, arresting, and even reversing human age-related suffering and disease through biomedical means.
The second major Foundation program is the SENS Research project. Foundation Chairman Dr. Aubrey de Grey has developed a detailed plan, SENS, to repair all known forms of aging-related damage to the human body. By restoring youthful cellular and biomolecular structure, SENS will also restore youthful function, health, and vitality. The Foundation directly funds scientists doing research in areas of the SENS plan too ambitious or too forward-looking to attract funding from mainstream sources.
The Foundation is advancing biomedical progress toward the dramatically longer, healthier life spans that science is making increasingly clear are available – if we work together to develop the solution to this ancient problem.
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Cancer is one of the leading causes of death and thus one of the key targets of SENS. Our approach aims to tackle cancer.
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Jason Silva and Max Lugavere describe through exploration and interviews what life may be like if aging and death were to cease in the near future.
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Today I am extremely pleased to announce exciting developments in the delivery of our global mission. As you might be aware, Methuselah Foundation’s activities have always covered the twin threads ...
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World Health Day 2009 focuses on the resilience and safety of health facilities and the health workers who treat those affected by emergencies. Events around the world will highlight successes, advocate for safe facility design and construction, and build momentum for widespread emergency prepare...
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I have always supported longevity science, and want to see a cure for aging and death in my lifetime or the lifetime the next generation.
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