Notes on European Longevity Industry Startups

While much of the longevity industry is based in the US, there are a fair number of companies elsewhere in the world, working on approaches that target the mechanisms of aging in order to better treat age-related conditions or improve health in later life. The article here notes some of the European biotech startups in the industry. The main body of commentary on the industry in this article suffers from much the same issues as most popular science coverage of research into the treatment of aging as a medical condition, in that the author makes no attempt to distinguish between parts of the field that cannot possible do much good (near anything involving supplements, definitely anything involving consumer focused digital health) versus parts of the field that have the potential to produce real rejuvenation in the old (such as senolytic drugs). The Dutch company Cleara Biotech is developing senescence biomarkers for diagnostics and drug targeting. In 2018 it raised a seed round from Apollo Health. Senisca was spun out of Exeter University in 2020 and is dedicated to the development of new approaches to reverse cellular senescence. Senolytic Therapeutics is a Barcelona-based biotech startup founded in 2017 developing novel medicines that target senescent cells. Life Length is a Spanish company founded in 2010 and has developed a technology for measuring telomere length. Tree Frog Therapeutics is a French stem cell company that develops C-stem, a platform to acce...
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