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The Agenda 👇
News bulletin 📰
Recent funding in longevity 💰
Upcoming events 📅
Jobs in longevity 🧑💼
1/ News bulletin 📰
🧠 FDA clears Elon Musk’s brain implants for human trials - Neuralink received clearance for its first-in-human clinical trial, a critical milestone for the brain-implant startup.
🇲🇹 Corinthia London launches partnership with London Regenerative Institute - the luxury London hotel is adding longevity to its list of benefits with wellness, health, and beauty alliances.
💰 Hevolution Foundation announces Advancing Geroscience Efforts (HF-AGE) grant recipients - the Saudi non-profit organisation announced 9 winners across the longevity research spectrum
😞 Depression plays an alarming role in accelerating biological ageing - study published in Nature Mental Health involved an analysis of 426 individuals with late-in-life depression
🐁 Oxygen restriction enhances lifespan of rapidly aging mice - this is the first study to demonstrate that “oxygen restriction” can extend lifespan in a mammalian model of ageing.
2/ Recent funding in longevity 💰
3/ 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.
4/ Jobs in longevity 🧑💼
Calico Labs // Director / Senior Director, Business Development // San Francisco, CA
Retro Biosciences // Single Cell Scientist // Redwood City, CA
BioAge Labs // In Vivo Biology Scientist // Richmond, CA
Turn.bio // Director - Formulations // Mountain View, CA
Altos Labs // Research Specialist, Histology // San Francisco, CA