Aubrey de Grey Establishes the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation

Aubrey de Grey, co-founder of the Methuselah Foundation and later the SENS Research Foundation (SRF), funding the latter organization with $13M of his own resources to add to the donations of philanthropists, has over the past year separated from the SRF, for reasons that I intend to neither discuss nor have a public opinion on. Per his presentation at the recent Longevity Summit Dublin, he has now founded the Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation in collaboration with the Ichor Life Sciences principals to continue to bring funding into the programs that he believes need to happen in order to unblock important lines of research and development leading to rejuvenation therapies. It is quite clearly the case that we wouldn't be as far advanced as we are today without the past twenty years of patient advocacy, agitation, education, outreach, and philanthropic funding of blocked and neglected research, without the efforts of the staff and leadership of the Methuselah Foundation, SENS Research Foundation, and their growing list of allies in the research community. Details are somewhat sparse as to which specific programs will be undertaken by the LEV Foundation, but we should probably expect them to be much along the same lines as the work done at SRF over the past decade. Combining interventions appears to be an initial focus; it was always the case that the SENS approach to aging was envisaged as many different therapies targeting different forms of age-relat...
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