The Agenda 👇
Update
News bulletin 📰
Recent funding in longevity 💰
Upcoming events 📅
Jobs in longevity 🧑💼
1/ Update
Welcome back to The Longevity Update! I have taken a break from drafting these to solicit feedback on what folk love, hate and wish to see; and the results are pretty unanimous! Generally readers enjoy this weekly dose of longevity intel, but would like shorter, sharper updates with what’s happening in the rapidly evolving longevity market. That means I won't be including my short narratives in this weekly update, but may occasionally include longer form content in dedicated editions where interesting trends are emerging.
With that, live long and enjoy! 🖖
2/ News bulletin 📰
🇲🇪 Zuzalu, the city hosting the first longevity experiment of its kind - the “pop-up city” event is bring together participants to deepen the longevity ecosystem
🧠 Eli Lilly announce strong Phase III results for Alzheimer’s drug - Donanemab met all goals of the trial, and reportedly slowed progression of Alzheimer's by 35%
💰 Hevolution Foundation announces $115 million Geroscience Research Opportunities Awards - investments to incentivise research and entrepreneurship in healthspan science
👁️ Life Biosciences demonstrates restoration of visual function in nonhuman primates - gene therapy candidate uses a partial epigenetic reprogramming approach
🐁 Using Machine Learning to Find Senolytics - Research published in Nature Aging showcases a machine learning algorithm that finds senescent cell-removing drugs (senolytics)
3/ Recent funding in longevity 💰
Biolytica raises $5.8m to build out revolutionary AI-driven longevity platform
David Sinclair’s Tally up! consumer longevity company lands $10m
Longevity Venture Partners raises $30m to advance ageing-in-place
4/ Upcoming events 📅
🇺🇸 The fifth Age-Related Disease Therapeutics Summit will return on May 31 - June 2, and feature such speakers as Hanadie Yousef of Juvena Therapeutics and David Furman of the Buck Institute, and it is chaired by Michael Fossel of Telocyte. Taking place in San Francisco, US, the event seeks to unite pharmaceutical experts, investors, and academics in surmounting regulatory hurdles and developing new drugs that combat aging at its root.
🇮🇪 The Longevity Summit this year will include keynotes from luminaries including Irina Conboy, George Church, Vera Gorbunova, and Aubrey de Grey, the annual conference of LEV Foundation returns to Dublin, Ireland on 17 - 20 August 2023. This four-day event will focus on research developments in the longevity space that could increase human healthspan if brought to the clinic.
🇩🇰 The tenth Annual Ageing Research & Drug Discovery Meeting will feature James Kirkland, David Sinclair, Kirsten Fortney, Vadim Gladyshev, and Brian Kennedy along with a Longevity Medicine Workshop, which brings together front-line health care providers and ageing researchers to discuss clinical practices. Taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 28 - September 1. This week-long event will be chaired by Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, Daniela Bakula, and Alex Zhavoronkov.
5/ Jobs in longevity 🧑💼
Retro Biosciences // Single Cell Scientist // Redwood City, CA
BioAge Labs // In Vivo Biology Scientist // Richmond, CA
Scholar Rock // Vice President, Head of Clinical Pharmacology // Cambridge, MA
Turn.bio // Director - Formulations // Mountain View, CA
Altos Labs // Research Specialist, Histology // San Francisco, CA