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Longevity

Explore the science, companies, institutions, funding, events, and people working to extend healthy human lifespan.

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The field

At a glance

Definition

The science and translation of biological aging, healthspan, lifespan extension, geroscience, senescence, cellular reprogramming, regenerative approaches, longevity therapeutics, biological-age measurement, and longevity medicine.

Field at a glance

Longevity organizations
151
Longevity people
191
Longevity programs and funding
52
Technologies

The longevity technology stack spans therapeutic platforms, diagnostics, and data infrastructure. Epigenetic reprogramming uses Yamanaka factors (or subsets) to reverse cellular age markers without losing cell identity, the most ambitious therapeutic approach in the field. Senolytics selectively clear senescent cells that accumulate with age and drive chronic inflammation, with small molecules, peptides, and antibody-based approaches in development. Gene therapy delivers genetic modifications that target specific aging mechanisms, such as telomerase activation or mitochondrial DNA repair. Epigenetic clocks (Horvath, GrimAge, DunedinPACE) measure biological age from DNA methylation patterns, providing the most reliable current biomarker of aging rate. Multi-omic profiling (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, epigenomics) creates comprehensive molecular portraits that identify individual aging trajectories and intervention opportunities. AI-driven drug discovery applies machine learning to identify novel targets in aging biology and design compounds that modulate age-related pathways.

Applications

Longevity applications span therapeutic, diagnostic, and consumer wellness domains. In therapeutics, companies are developing senolytics for age-related conditions: Unity Biotechnology targets osteoarthritis with senescent cell-clearing compounds, while others pursue senolytic approaches for pulmonary fibrosis, kidney disease, and neurodegeneration. In diagnostics, biological age tests from TruDiagnostic and others provide individuals with a measurable, trackable indicator of their aging rate that responds to lifestyle interventions, creating actionable health data. In consumer health, longevity clinics like Fountain Life offer comprehensive assessments (full-body MRI, coronary calcium scoring, multi-omic profiling, cognitive testing) that identify disease risks years before symptoms appear. In supplements, companies selling NMN, NR, resveratrol, and rapamycin analogs provide products with varying degrees of scientific support aimed at targeting specific aging mechanisms. In data and analytics, platforms that aggregate biological age, fitness, sleep, nutrition, and biomarker data create personalized aging dashboards that track intervention effectiveness over time.

Market and funding

The global longevity and anti-aging market exceeded $85 billion in 2025, with over $13 billion in cumulative venture funding directed toward longevity science startups. The market spans therapeutic development (senolytics, epigenetic reprogramming, gene therapies targeting aging), consumer health (biological age testing, longevity supplements, health optimization protocols), diagnostics (aging biomarkers, multi-omic panels), and the emerging category of longevity clinics and platforms that connect consumers with evidence-based anti-aging interventions. The sector sits at the intersection of biotech, consumer health, and fundamental aging science, attracting capital from dedicated longevity funds, biotech crossover investors, and high-net-worth individuals with personal conviction in extending healthspan.

Who is working on it, and who is paying for it

Organizations in the field

The labs, companies and funders doing the work, and the groups helping it along.

Research institutes 20

Clock Foundation imageResearch Institute

Clock Foundation is a UCLA spin-out nonprofit that develops epigenetic aging clocks, including the Horvath mammalian array, and supports ad…

Dog Aging Project imageResearch Institute

The Dog Aging Project studies aging in companion dogs and runs TRIAD, a placebo-controlled trial of rapamycin in healthy middle-aged dogs.

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Longevity Consortium imageResearch Institute

The Longevity Consortium is an NIA-supported research network studying exceptional human longevity that offers Translational Opportunity Fu…

Research Institute

The UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing is a research center on the biology of aging and aging-related disease using yeast, worms, flies and sh…

Geneva College of Longevity Science imageUniversity

The Geneva College of Longevity Science offers an executive master's and a PhD specialization focused on longevity medicine and the biology…

Stanford Center on Longevity imageResearch Institute

A Stanford research center examining how technology, policy, and behavior can improve longer lives.

Funders 25

Amaranth Foundation imageGrant Maker

The Amaranth Foundation funds longevity and neuroscience research and publishes the Bottlenecks of Aging analysis.

Glenn Foundation for Medical Research imageGrant Maker

The Glenn Foundation funds research on the biological mechanisms of aging, including the network of Paul F. Glenn Centers for Biology of Ag…

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Immortal Dragons imageVenture Capital

Immortal Dragons is a Singapore-based $40 million longevity fund investing in pre-seed to Series A life extension startups and in other lon…

Methuselah Fund imageVenture Capital

The Methuselah Fund is a venture fund affiliated with the Methuselah Foundation that invests in companies extending healthy human lifespan…

Norn Group imageGrant Maker

Norn Group is a longevity do tank that runs Impetus Grants, talent programs and field roadmapping to speed aging research into medicines.

Larry L. Hillblom Foundation imageGrant Maker

The Hillblom Foundation funds California research on diseases of aging, mainly brain and vision, and has made 185 aging-related grants.

Wellcome Leap imageGrant Maker

Wellcome Leap runs the $60M Dynamic Resilience program to find biomarkers and mechanisms of resilience and frailty in aging.

Companies 70

cellvie imageStartup

cellvie develops mitochondria transplantation therapies for ischemia-reperfusion injury and aging-related degeneration.

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clock.bio imageStartup

clock.bio maps genes that regulate cellular aging and measures cell age with machine learning to develop rejuvenation interventions, starti…

Cyclarity Therapeutics imageStartup

Cyclarity Therapeutics, a SENS Research Foundation spinout formerly called Underdog Pharmaceuticals, develops a cyclodextrin that removes 7…

Deciduous Therapeutics imageStartup

Deciduous Therapeutics develops immunotherapies that restore the immune system's ability to clear senescent cells that drive age-related di…

Deep Longevity imageStartup

Deep Longevity develops deep learning aging clocks for blood, psychological and other data and licenses them through its SenoClock platform…

Fountain Therapeutics imageStartup

Fountain Therapeutics uses stem cell assays and machine learning to find drugs that reverse cellular aging, with programs in skin atrophy a…

Generation Lab imageStartup

Generation Lab offers a blood-based SystemAge test that measures biological aging across body systems, built on the aging research of co-fo…

Genflow Biosciences imageStartup

Genflow Biosciences is a London-listed company developing a centenarian SIRT6 gene therapy targeting the aging process in humans and dogs.

Gero imageStartup

Gero uses AI and human longitudinal data to design drugs that treat aging as a system-level failure.

GlycanAge imageStartup

GlycanAge measures biological age from IgG glycans, a test derived from two decades of research linking glycosylation to inflammation and a…

Gordian Biotechnology imageStartup

Gordian Biotechnology runs pooled in vivo gene therapy screens with single-cell readouts in animal models of age-related disease to find th…

Immunis imageStartup

Immunis develops a stem cell-derived secretome therapy to reverse age-acquired immune decline and related muscle loss.

Integrated Biosciences imageStartup

Integrated Biosciences combines aging biology, chemistry and AI to discover small molecules against age-related disease and aging itself.

Intervene Immune imageStartup

Intervene Immune runs the TRIIM-X thymus regeneration trial, following the TRIIM study that reported reversal of epigenetic age in humans.

Junevity imageStartup

Junevity develops siRNA therapeutics from its RESET platform that repress transcription factors to reset gene networks altered by aging.

Juvena Therapeutics imageStartup

Juvena Therapeutics uses AI to develop protein therapeutics derived from the stem cell secretome to restore regenerative capacity in aging…

Juvenescence imageStartup

Juvenescence is a clinical-stage biotech developing small molecules, biologics and cell therapies that target core mechanisms of aging to t…

Loyal imageStartup

Loyal is a clinical-stage veterinary company developing drugs to extend the healthy lifespan of dogs, led by LOY-002 for senior dogs.

LyGenesis imageStartup

LyGenesis uses lymph nodes as bioreactors to grow ectopic livers and other organs, now in a Phase 2a trial for end-stage liver disease.

Matter Bio imageStartup

Matter Bio develops therapies that preserve genomic integrity by addressing somatic mutations that accumulate with age.

MetroBiotech imageStartup

MetroBiotech (Metro International Biotech) develops pharmaceutical NAD+ boosters, led by MIB-626 in Phase 2 trials.

Minovia Therapeutics imageStartup

Minovia Therapeutics develops mitochondrial augmentation therapies for mitochondrial disease and positions aging as a mitochondrial disease.

Mitrix Bio imageStartup

Mitrix Bio grows mitochondria in bioreactors and transplants them to treat age-related decline and extend healthy lifespan.

Oisín Biotechnologies imageStartup

Oisín Biotechnologies develops non-viral genetic medicines for age-related disease, including senescent cell clearance, klotho and muscle p…

Ora Biomedical imageStartup

Ora Biomedical screens large compound libraries for lifespan extension in model organisms through its Million-Molecule Challenge to find he…

Rejuve Biotech imageStartup

Rejuve Biotech builds an AI research platform that combines knowledge graphs and neural-symbolic AI to generate and test hypotheses for the…

Rejuvenate Biomed imageStartup

Rejuvenate Biomed is a Belgian company developing combination drugs for age-related disease, led by RJx-01 in Phase 2 for sarcopenia.

Repair Biotechnologies imageStartup

Repair Biotechnologies develops a Cholesterol Degrading Platform to clear localized cholesterol accumulations that drive age-related diseas…

Retro Biosciences imageStartup

Retro Biosciences

Revel Pharmaceuticals imageStartup

Revel Pharmaceuticals develops therapeutic enzymes that break glucosepane crosslinks and other age-related molecular damage in the extracel…

Samsara Therapeutics imageStartup

Samsara Therapeutics is an Apollo Health Ventures company developing autophagy-activating drugs for age-related neurodegenerative diseases.

SENISCA imageStartup

SENISCA develops oligonucleotide therapies that restore splicing factor levels to reprogram senescent cells to a more youthful state.

Shift Bioscience imageStartup

Shift Bioscience combines single-cell aging clocks and virtual cell models to discover gene targets that rejuvenate aged cells, with lead p…

SIWA Therapeutics imageStartup

SIWA Therapeutics develops a monoclonal antibody that targets and removes senescent cells for age-related disease and cancer.

Tolerance Bio imageStartup

Tolerance Bio develops therapies that restore and preserve thymus function to extend immune healthspan.

TruDiagnostic imageStartup

TruDiagnostic runs a DNA methylation lab that sells epigenetic biological age tests and develops aging clocks such as OMICmAge and SYMPHONY…

Turn Biotechnologies imageStartup

Turn Biotechnologies develops mRNA-based epigenetic reprogramming therapies (ERA platform) to restore cell function lost with age.

YouthBio Therapeutics imageStartup

YouthBio Therapeutics develops partial cellular reprogramming gene therapies for Alzheimer's disease and other age-related brain diseases.

AgelessRx imageStartup

AgelessRx is a telehealth provider of longevity prescriptions such as rapamycin and metformin that also sponsors decentralized longevity tr…

AgeX Therapeutics imageStartup

AgeX Therapeutics

AgeX Therapeutics was a Michael West company developing induced tissue regeneration and cell therapies for age-related degenerative disease.

Alkahest imageStartup

Alkahest mines the plasma proteome for therapies and biomarkers of age-related disease, building on young-plasma research.

Elevian imageStartup

Elevian develops GDF11-based and other circulating-factor therapeutics to restore regenerative capacity lost with age.

Emtora Biosciences imageStartup

Emtora Biosciences developed eRapa, an encapsulated rapamycin first created for aging studies at the Barshop Institute, and licensed it to…

Epiterna imageStartup

Epiterna was a Swiss company that used high-throughput screening to develop drugs extending healthy lifespan in dogs, cats and humans.

InsideTracker imageStartup

InsideTracker sells blood biomarker analysis with an InnerAge biological age score and lifestyle recommendations.

Longeveron imageStartup

Longeveron develops the mesenchymal stem cell therapy laromestrocel for aging-related conditions such as Aging Frailty and Alzheimer's as w…

Renewal Bio imageStartup

Renewal Bio builds human embryo models from stem cells with the aim of producing cells and tissues for rejuvenation and transplantation.

Startup

resTORbio

resTORbio developed the TORC1 inhibitor RTB101 to improve immune function in older adults, one of the first aging-targeted drugs in late-st…

Satellite Bio imageStartup

Satellite Bio develops expandable hepatocyte tissue therapeutics to replace lost liver function in severe liver disease.

Tornado Therapeutics imageStartup

Tornado Therapeutics is a Cambrian Bio pipeline company developing next-generation rapalogs to treat disease and extend healthy lifespan.

Communities and field builders 4

Longevity Global imageCommunity

Longevity Global is a network of city chapters and events that connects longevity researchers, investors and entrepreneurs.

Longevity List imageCommunity

Connecting the longevity biotechnology ecosystem.

VitaDAO imageCommunity

Decentralized funding for longevity research.

Other organizations 32

Academy of Geroscience imageNonprofit Ecosystem Builder

The Academy of Geroscience, formerly the Academy for Health and Lifespan Research, is a membership body of leading aging biologists that pu…

Aging (Aging-US) imageMedia Publication

Aging-US is a peer-reviewed journal published by Impact Journals dedicated to aging research and the biology of age-related disease.

Research Data Provider

Aging Biotech Info publishes structured, curated tables of aging and longevity biotech companies, nonprofits and resources.

American Aging Association (AGE) imageNonprofit Ecosystem Builder

AGE is a scientific society for biology of aging researchers that publishes the journal GeroScience and holds an annual meeting.

Biomarkers of Aging Consortium imageNonprofit Ecosystem Builder

The Biomarkers of Aging Consortium convenes researchers to validate and standardize biomarkers of aging, runs the Biolearn open-source tool…

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Dog Aging Institute imageNonprofit Ecosystem Builder

The Dog Aging Institute is a nonprofit that supports research on aging in companion dogs, including the Dog Aging Project.

Fight Aging! imageMedia Publication

Fight Aging! is a longevity science and advocacy blog and newsletter, running since 2004, covering rejuvenation biotechnology.

Forever Healthy Foundation imageNonprofit Ecosystem Builder

Forever Healthy is a German nonprofit that publishes evidence reviews of longevity interventions and hosts the Rejuvenation Startup Summit…

HEALES (Healthy Life Extension Society) imagePolicy Advocacy

HEALES is a Belgian nonprofit that informs the public about biogerontology, supports anti-aging research and publishes the monthly newslett…

Human Ageing Genomic Resources imageResearch Data Provider

Human Ageing Genomic Resources maintains curated aging databases such as GenAge, DrugAge, AnAge, CellAge and LongevityMap for the research…

International Longevity Alliance imagePolicy Advocacy

The International Longevity Alliance is a global federation of longevity advocacy groups that promotes research on aging and organizes inte…

Kitalys Institute imagePolicy Advocacy

The Kitalys Institute is a nonprofit that advances healthspan-extending therapies and runs the Targeting Healthy Longevity series, formerly…

LongeviPAC imagePolicy Advocacy

LongeviPAC is a US political action committee that supports candidates backing policies for interventions that extend healthy human lifespa…

Longevity Biotech Fellowship imageOther

Longevity Biotech Fellowship

Longevity Xplorer (LongX) imageNonprofit Ecosystem Builder

LongX is a nonprofit that trains students and early-career professionals for the longevity field through primer courses and the remote Xplo…

Magnitude Biosciences imageResearch Data Provider

Magnitude Biosciences is a contract research company that runs automated C. elegans healthspan and lifespan assays for aging and longevity…

National Institute on Aging imageGovernment Agency

The US federal institute leading and funding research on aging, older adults, and age-related health.

The Longevity Forum imageEvent Organizer

The Longevity Forum is a UK not-for-profit that runs an annual forum and London Longevity Week on the science, finance and policy of longer…

The Longevity Prize imageCompetition

The Longevity Prize is a joint prize platform of Foresight Institute, VitaDAO, Methuselah Foundation, Lifespan.io and XPRIZE that runs rese…

Time Initiative imageFellowship

The Time Initiative is a fellowship program, run with Amaranth Foundation and AFAR, that funds young researchers to pursue projects in agin…

Aging Analytics Agency imageResearch Data Provider

Aging Analytics Agency publishes reports and dashboards on the longevity industry, investment and biomarker ecosystem as part of Deep Knowl…

Alliance for Aging Research imagePolicy Advocacy

The Alliance for Aging Research is a US nonprofit that advocates for research and policy on healthy aging and age-related disease.

Gerontological Society of America imageNonprofit Ecosystem Builder

GSA is a large interdisciplinary society for aging research whose members and journals include a biological sciences section.

Healthspan Action Coalition imagePolicy Advocacy

The Healthspan Action Coalition promotes policy and funding for research and innovation that extend healthspan.

Healthy Longevity Clinic imageOther

Healthy Longevity Clinic is a physician-led longevity clinic that pairs diagnostics with its own clinical research.

Ichor Life Sciences imageResearch Data Provider

Ichor Life Sciences is a preclinical and clinical CRO that offers geriatric animal models and lifespan studies alongside general drug disco…

The names to know

People shaping the field

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Person

Aaron Cravens

Person

Adam Antebi

Person

Adam Gries

Person

Founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine and co-organizer of the Aging Research and Drug Discovery meeting.

Person

Alexander (Zan) Fleming

Person

Alexander Schueller

Person

Co-Founder at Apollo Health Ventures | Biotech Investor & Longevity Thought Leader

Person

Alina Rui Su

Person

Andrea B. Maier

Person

Andrew J. Scott

Person

Ann Beliën

Person

Anne Schaefer

Person

Aubrey de Grey

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Ben Blue

Person

Ben Goertzel

Person

Ben Lee

Person

Björn Schumacher

Person

Blair Zhao

Person

Blake Byers

Person

Boyang Wang

Person

Brian Armstrong

The reading, grouped by topic

Papers in the field

Each paper is counted once. Open a card for its preprint and its published version, where both exist.

Aging frameworks 2

Paper

Journal Article

Updates the hallmark framework to twelve processes and explains their interdependence across biological aging.

Authors
Carlos López-Otín, Maria A. Blasco et al.
Year
2023
Venue
Cell
Topic
Aging frameworks
Paper

Journal Article

Defines nine interconnected cellular and molecular hallmarks as a framework for studying aging and identifying interventions that may improve healthspan.

Authors
Carlos López-Otín, Maria A. Blasco et al.
Year
2013
Venue
Cell
Topic
Aging frameworks

Cellular reprogramming 1

Cellular senescence 1

Paper

Journal Article

Shows in naturally aged mice that clearing p16Ink4a-positive senescent cells delays several age-associated pathologies and improves healthy lifespan.

Authors
Darren J. Baker, Bennett G. Childs et al.
Year
2016
Venue
Nature
Topic
Cellular senescence

Geroscience 1

Paper

Journal Article

Sets out the geroscience proposition that targeting shared mechanisms of aging may delay multiple chronic diseases and extend healthspan.

Authors
Brian K. Kennedy, Shelley L. Berger et al.
Year
2014
Venue
Cell
Topic
Geroscience

Biological age 1

Paper

Journal Article

Introduces a multi-tissue DNA methylation clock that estimates biological age across human tissues and cell types.

Authors
Steve Horvath
Year
2013
Venue
Genome Biology
Topic
Biological age

Where the field meets

Events and conferences

Conference series 13

Earlier and undated events 3

Showing 3 of 3

Event

ARDD 2026

Scheduled

The 13th Aging Research and Drug Discovery meeting, with forums on longevity medicine, AI-enabled drug discovery, and healthspan therapeuti…

Event

RAADfest 2026

Completed

A three-day public longevity conference centered on practical protocols, technologies, and healthspan.

Money and ways in

Programs and funding

Programs and fellowships 20

Open funding opportunities 5

Other funding opportunities 27

What people in the field are saying

Recent writing and talks

Article

Reports preclinical evidence linking PTCHD4 to cellular senescence and emphasizes that the target still requires further validation.

Published
Sep 15, 2026

The field, out loud

Podcasts and episodes

Episodes 2

Shows 3

Podcast

Longevity Current is the official podcast of Longevity San Juan, Puerto Rico’s nonprofit initiative to build a global hub for biotech and l…

Podcast

The Longevity Papers podcast focuses on the latest research papers in longevity biotech. Each episode covers a few of the tens of papers in…

Podcast

A weekly live audience show featuring the people building and funding companies that are extending healthy human lifespan. Join us Thursday…

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