Become a SENS Patron Before the Year Ends: Another $12,000 is Added to the Challenge Fund, and We Need Your Help to Meet that Goal

The end of year fundraiser for SENS rejuvenation research progresses apace. We are helping to fund the work needed to produce actual, working rejuvenation therapies soon enough to matter, treatments that can target and repair the fundamental causes of aging. Aging is caused by a few forms of molecular damage that accrue in cells and tissues, a sort of slow biological wear and tear that results from the normal operation of metabolism. Given the right lines of research, that damage can be repaired, and thus the clock turned back, age-related disease prevented or effectively treated. Those research programs are outlined in the SENS vision, and have been underway for some years now, making steady progress with the support of everyday philanthropists like you and I. At the start of November, Josh Triplett and Fight Aging! put up a $24,000 challenge fund for new SENS Patrons: everyone who signs up before the end of the year to make a regular monthly donation to the SENS Research Foundation will have the next year of donations matched dollar for dollar. I'm pleased to announce that this past weekend, Christophe and Dominique Cornuejols stepped up to contribute another $12,000 to the fund. You might recall that they also provided a matching fund to help in the last days of the universal cancer therapy crowdfunding effort earlier this year. It is a privilege to have had the support of these folk over the past few years of Fight Aging! fundraisers. The SENS Patron challen...
Source: Fight Aging! - Category: Research Authors: Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs