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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 10h

The longevity science community is converging on Boston for ARDD and Biomarkers of Aging… and The Longevity Initiative will be there! We’re fundraising, and looking for collaborators to bring regulation and public understanding up to speed with the latest breakthroughs in longevity science.

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 11/08/2026

What would it take to reverse 10-20 years of age-related decline in muscle, cognition and immunity? XPRIZE is spending $101 million to try and find out. At the Longevity Initiative, we believe prizes are one of the most effective tools to efficiently test different hypotheses and fund those with

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 12/06/2026

Our Director Andrew Steele (@statto.bsky.social) was interviewed for BBC Radio 4’s Rethink, on the difference between chronological and biological age, and the first treatments aiming to close it. Listen here:

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BBC Sounds - Rethink, Rethink... how we age

How scientists can now make old damaged cells young again.

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 06/06/2026

We spoke with Social Capital for their new Deep Dive on longevity! Ageing is the biggest shared risk factor for the diseases that kill us, but they find that it gets just 0.25% of global biomedical R&D. Read more here:

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Deep Dive: How Close Are We to Living Longer?

Cancer, heart disease, dementia, and type 2 diabetes are funded, researched, and treated as separate problems. However, they share one underlying driver…

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 03/06/2026

We’ve been on there for a while, but just officially launched on @linkedin.com! Check out our article on what we started a think tank, not a biotech – and please give us a follow over there and share our page with your network.

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Welcome to The Longevity Initiative

The Longevity Initiative is working towards a world free from age-related disease. So why start a think tank and educational nonprofit rather than a biotech? Longevity policy and education are some of...

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 29/05/2026

Lovely to see a spike in traffic for our 2025 longevity business round-up last week as the Retro Bio news broke! If you're catching up on the reprogramming gold rush, the biotech funding drought and recent big exits, it’s all here:

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The business of longevity in 2025: big bets amid biotech bust

Billion-dollar bets on cellular reprogramming, biotech's rough year, and early FDA success for healthy lifespan extension in dogs.

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 27/05/2026

Does NIH research funding track what actually kills Americans? Building on A4LI’s new report, we ran the numbers: and ageing fares worst. Ageing causes 83% of deaths, yet receives just 1.2% of the research funding per death that cancer does—around $1 per American per year.

Scatter plot titled "US research funding vs deaths, by cause". Subtitle: "NIH research funding of a disease or cause of death in 2024, plotted against annual US deaths from that cause in 2023. Ageing causes over 80% of US deaths, but receives just 0.8% of NIH funding."

The vertical axis shows NIH funding (2024), from 0 to $8bn. The horizontal axis shows deaths from disease (2023), from 0 to about 2.6m. Each point is a cause of death.

Most points cluster in the bottom-left corner, with low funding and low-to-moderate death counts. Cancer sits high up at roughly 720k deaths and just over $8bn in funding — the highest-funded point. Alzheimer's and coronaviruses sit high on the funding axis despite relatively few deaths. Heart disease sits low and to the right, at about 1.4m deaths but under $2bn in funding. Ageing is far to the right at around 2.6m deaths but near the very bottom of the funding axis, an extreme outlier showing huge mortality and almost no funding.

A blue annotation reads: "Cancer is involved in 23% of deaths and receives $24 per American per year". A red annotation reads: "Ageing is responsible for 83% of US deaths and receives $1 per American per year".

There is almost no correlation between how many people a disease kills and how much research funding it receives.

Chart: The Longevity Initiative. Source: RCDC Funding Survey / CDC / analysis by The Longevity Initiative. Created with Datawrapper.

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 27/05/2026

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 19/05/2026

New post: Can longevity save us from a population crisis? We tried out @ourworldindata.org’s new population projection tool to see if increasing life expectancy could save us from demographic decline:

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Can longevity save us from a population crisis? – The Longevity Initiative

Everyone’s worried about falling birth rates. Almost no one is talking about the other lever that could reshape our demographic future: longevity.

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 04/03/2026

The Human Ageing Genomic Resources are vital open-source databases on longevity genes and drugs, and animal lifespans. It would be a loss to the field if they go offline due to funding cuts. See @jpsenescence.bsky.social’s post here for more details and how to support:

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 09/01/2026

Why does the word ‘longevity’ seem to be everywhere at the moment? The final piece in our round-up of the last year in longevity looks at how ageing, wellness and biohacking cropped up in the media, pop culture and…in discussions between Putin and Xi? Please enjoy this Friday read:

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Netflix and immortal dictators: Longevity’s biggest year yet

From Bryan Johnson's viral biohacking to Putin and Xi discussing living to 150, 2025's biggest longevity stories—and whether hype is helping or hurting science.

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 05/01/2026

To kick off 2026, we’re publishing a week of articles looking back at 2025 in longevity. The first is 2025 in longevity science—two new drug cocktails make mice live longer, plus clocks to measure the age of your organs and ‘extracellular vesicles’ improve signs of ageing in monkeys. Read it here:

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2025 in longevity: mice live 30% longer, human organ clocks

Two new drug cocktails make mice live longer—plus clocks to measure the age of your organs, and ‘extracellular vesicles’ improve signs of ageing in monkeys.

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 31/12/2025

There are just hours of 2025 remaining…so it’s your last chance to support The LI before the end of the tax year! Donations intended to support @thelongevityinitiative.org can be made via Vitalism Charitable Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Donate here:

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Donate – The Longevity Initiative

Help us build a future of longevity, healthier lives for all with longevity education and policy.

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 31/12/2025

The majority of poor health and deaths globally are caused by diseases that become common with age. But public policy has yet to catch up with ageing science, and longevity research is underappreciated, and underfunded. We exist to change that. Support us here:

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Donate – The Longevity Initiative

Help us build a future of longevity, healthier lives for all with longevity education and policy.

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Agingdoc⭐David Barzilai🔔MD PhD, MS, MBA, DipABLM @agingdoc.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

My friend Andrew Steele is building this: The majority of poor health and deaths globally are caused by diseases that become common with age... "But public policy has yet to catch up.. & longevity science is underappreciated, and underfunded We exist to change that" 🧑‍⚕️⚕️ thelongevityinitiative.org

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The Longevity Initiative

Learn how longevity science could help us all live healthier for longer—and what extending healthspan means for policy, ageing, and the economy.

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 30/12/2025

The future of health depends on better longevity science. That depends on more regular people and politicians knowing what longevity *is*. Thanks to collaboration with Vitalism Charitable Foundation, US donors can support The LI tax-efficiently. Donate before year-end 👉

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Donate – The Longevity Initiative

Help us build a future of longevity, healthier lives for all with longevity education and policy.

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 28/12/2025

We’re fundraising! And, just in time for the end of the tax year, we’ve partnered with Vitalism Charitable Foundation 501(c)(3) to enable US taxpayers to make a donation intended to support The Longevity Initiative which may be tax-deductible. Find out more here:

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Please donate to our end-of-year fundraiser – The Longevity Initiative

The Longevity Initiative is running an end-of-year fundraiser, in partnership with Vitalism Charitable Foundation.

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The Longevity Initiative @thelongevityinitiative.org · 27/12/2025

Hi! We are The Longevity Initiative, a new think tank and educational organisation working towards a world free from age-related disease, where longevity medicines are accessible to everyone. Find out more at our website, thelongevityinitiative.org 🐢

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The Longevity Initiative

Learn how longevity science could help us all live healthier for longer—and what extending healthspan means for policy, ageing, and the economy.

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Andrew Steele @statto.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Just in time for Christmas, here are my top 3 tips for a healthier 2026! Watch this, and more details in the thread below…

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Longevity scientist’s top 3 tips for a healthy 2026

YouTube video by Andrew Steele

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