In 2023, CureAlz funded a record $27.8 million in Alzheimer’s research. To learn more about how your support is making a difference, visit https://lnkd.in/ewJXk98D #Alzheimersresearch #AnnualReport #InGratitude
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Check out The Christian Post’s op-ed by Eventide Asset Management’s Finny Kuruvilla, discussing the transformative possibilities of Christians investing in the biotech industry! In the United States alone, more than 6 million people live with Alzheimer’s — and 1 in 3 seniors die from the disease or another form of dementia. It’s hard to believe that diseases like Alzheimer’s could be a thing of the past through the combination of scientific research, innovation, and investment capital. Finny says, “As Christians, we have this amazing opportunity to come together and allocate our investment dollars toward companies that have an enormous impact on some of the most vulnerable people in the world — giving them a taste of God’s redemption.” Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/gCW-WsqF #biotechinvesting #faithbasedinvesting
Investing toward healing: How Christians can bring hope through biotech
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This article does a great job describing the challenges researchers face trying to sustain funding. The focus is mostly on biomedical research but we struggle with these same issues in the social sciences. Bridge funding could really help ease the stress and burden, but I haven’t seen opportunities for these resources in social science research. I hope we can find ways to change this situation and address the inefficiencies of grant funding.
What do #researchers do when #funding runs out? Nature Portfolio Bryony. Butland Stuart Buck Wei Yang Tham Allan Jacobson Claudia Neuhauser The National Institutes of Health National Science Foundation (NSF) UK Research and Innovation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation Horizon Europe https://lnkd.in/eTv_X2aY
What steps to take when funding starts to run out
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If you're a Business Angel or a VC, this one is for you 👇 You may decide to invest or not, but you absolutely need to know about it. Investing in Longevity may be the biggest investment opportunity of all times. During our next Longevity Startup Pitch Session happening online on Monday, the 19th of August at 8:30AM PST / 11:30AM EST / 5:30PM CET, featuring 2 startups who are raising funds: 1. Asima Health - the world's fastest, simplest and cheapest pancancer screening platform 2. Vincere Biosciences - small molecules to increase mitophagy to stop Parkinson’s disease, recovery kidney injury, and slow aging Sign up for free here: https://lnkd.in/dQ8Dfvbx PS1. The Longevity Investment Club is an initiative of the "2060 Foundation" https://2060.life, whose purpose is to defeat aging by 2060. PS2. If you're not that much into investing, but you still want to help the longevity field move forward, any positive reaction (like, comment or repost), to increase the visibility of the event, is most welcome.
Foundation 2060: defeat aging by 2060
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GRANTS! Alzheimer's Research UK Inspire Fund - deadline 14th October / info webinar 17th September The seed funding call is open to new applicants to the Inspire Fund. We encourage applications from people, organisations and communities with ideas, passion and ability to realise innovative public engagement projects on the topic of dementia. From those within or outside the research community, those with a track record in public engagement and those looking to apply their skills to this important issue for the first time. Through the scheme, we want to build relationships between communities and researchers, and are especially interested in proposals led by community groups or organisations. We strongly encourage applicants to forge links with collaborators or groups to strengthen ideas. We recognise this can take time, and will be supporting relationship building in funded projects. Projects can use a range of methods to engage with their audience. We encourage applicants to consider their audience when selecting methods of engagement, to ensure people are able to take part. https://lnkd.in/e8vddmrn
Inspire Fund – public engagement grant - Grant scheme - Alzheimer's Research UK
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"Healthspan' - at the nexus of all age-related diseases and disabilities! Neurxstem has launched its " Millie" dog aging initiative! Dogs have been our 'best friends' for thousands of years! https://lnkd.in/eDw-T3EN How do you define longevity? There are four domains to longevity, all of which contribute to improving quality of life during longer healthspans: 1. Prevention: prevent damage that causes aging; 2. Diagnostics: early identification of aging damage; 3. Treatment: treatment of damage that has occurred; 4. Renewal: reversal of damage that has occurred. https://lnkd.in/ePQ89BCX
Hevolution Foundation pumps another $40 million into aging research projects Aging research organizations, including the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and American Federation for Aging Research, benefit as Global Healthspan Summit funding commitments reach $100m. #aging #longevity #funding
Hevolution pumps another $40 million into aging research projects
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The Science Industry Partnership welcome the investment of £650 million from the Government. "The ‘Life Sci for Growth’ package brings together 10 different policies including £121 million ($150 million) to improve commercial clinical trials to bring new medicines to patients faster, up to £48 million ($59.4 million) of new money for scientific innovation to prepare for any future health emergencies, £154 million ($190.5 million) to increase the capacity of the U.K.’s biological data bank further aiding scientific discoveries that help human health, and up to £250 million ($309 million) to incentivise pension schemes to invest in our most promising science and tech firms. The ‘Life Sci for Growth’ package also includes plans to relaunch the Academic Health Science Network as Health Innovation Networks to boost innovation by bringing together the NHS, local communities, charities, academia and industry to share best practice." #lifescienceinvestment #governmentinvestment #growth https://lnkd.in/ebPmD45G
UK invests £650M in life sciences
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SMA Europe are calling for research proposals, aiming to drive innovation and progress in the fight against Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). This call presents a remarkable opportunity for researchers, scientists, and clinicians to contribute their expertise towards transformative projects that could significantly impact the lives of those affected by SMA. From innovative therapies to novel approaches in understanding the disease mechanisms, every proposal has the potential to make a real difference. At TREAT-NMD, we understand the urgency of finding effective treatments and ultimately a cure for SMA. Collaborative efforts like this call for research are vital in accelerating progress and bringing hope to individuals and families impacted by SMA worldwide. To learn more about SMA Europe's Call for Research and how you can get involved, visit: https://lnkd.in/gF5pYVbg #SMA #Research #Collaboration #Hope #TREATNMD #SMAEurope
SMA Europe launches their Call for Research nr. 12
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ICYMI: Investing toward healing: How Christians can bring hope through biotech: Being a biotech investor is especially important as we invest in companies dealing with the human body, and inevitably, one’s own view of human life impacts ethical standards from research and development to marketing and distribution. #Alzheimers #dementia #biotech #suffering #mutualfunds #healing #investment #healthcare #Christianinvestment #biotechinvestment
Investing toward healing: How Christians can bring hope through biotech
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🥁 Call for Applications: OCRA Health Equity Research Grant 2025 📍 Are you passionate about addressing health disparities in Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance ? OCRA invites applications for the 2025 Health Equity Research Grant! 🔍 Objective: Support projects promoting equity, inclusivity, and evidence-based approaches in marginalized communities affected by ovarian and gynecologic cancers. 💡 Research Areas: ◾ Identifying social, cultural, and economic factors contributing to health disparities. ◾ Improving access to quality care and treatment options. ◾ Exploring impacts of disparities on disease progression and survival rates. ◾ Investigating genetic and molecular factors influencing disparities. 💰 Funding: Up to $100,000USD annually for two years ($200,000 USD total) starting March 1, 2025. 🌍 International applicants welcome! 👉 For more information visit: https://lnkd.in/gvhVvDNU 📍 I'm a co-founder of DreamSpace Academy - a non-profit social enterprise tackling local socio-economic and environmental challenges through challenge-based learning, grassroots innovation, and impact venture building. ☝ Follow me for updates on empowerment initiatives around the world !!! #education #innovation #entrepreneurship #sustainability #opportunity #srilanka
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The recent announcement of the #XPrize longevity competition and this article from Raiany Romanni https://lnkd.in/eacjr7qZ has led me to contemplate trends in biotech that are slowing down our ability to deliver on the demand for longevity. One element that stands out to me is the hypocrisy within the longevity-technology funding ecosystem. Raiany writes about the imperative to develop treatments that enhance human health rather than treat its deficiencies when they appear in the form of disease. When you look at the companies that get funded by "longevity tech" angel investors and venture capital funds, they are mostly therapeutics companies developing drugs for age-related diseases. That is just biopharma, rebranded as longevity. Having therapeutics for age-related diseases is necessary. But the same problems with biopharma that undercut any chance of it credibly donning a utopian mask carry over to these programs made by and for longevity investors. - 95% failure rate to underwrite profits of billions that will go to a few people. - Thousands of companies have proliferated, each claiming to have a revolutionary solution to a key mechanism of aging. Not all of these can be the best within the scope of the specific need they seek to fill, and not all of them can be FDA approved. Too much competition obfuscates the core goal and will delay societal returns. - Technologies that offset precipitous decline by a few years being approved and funded while opportunities to adopt paradigms that could offset health problems by decades get ignored. - Shortcuts being taken such as advancing a single asset rather than a combination therapy that has a much higher chance of working and just needs more resources, but won't get them because of how fractured investment is. I'm a biopharma founder on top of my nutraceutical company, so I'm just as guilty - and I DO believe in the importance of pharmaceuticals. All I know is that if I were a longevity investor.... a decision maker in a community that so proudly claims to look toward the future - I would not allocate those precious resources to continuing the status quo of medicine. The last food for thought I'll leave you with...solving aging and disease is a moonshot. If 5,000 small teams all tried to get to the moon and went around the world asking investors for money to build and test their rocket, moving on a few million or few tens of millions at a time, do you think humanity would have landed on the moon? More likely there would be countless wasted resources, thousands of preventable deaths, a complete lack of information sharing, tons of suboptimal teams, and lots of cutting corners. And the starter teams would all be too old to make the trip if one did figure it out eventually. Jason C. Mercurio, MFE, Harven DeShield, PhD, JD, MSc, Scott Fulton, Garri Zmudze, David Scieszka, Arun Pudur, Olivia H. Scharfman, Balaji Gopalan, Rubén Darío Flores Saaib, Stephen McCain, Ryan Bifulco
Biggest science prize in history aims to extend human healthspan by a decade
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