We’re inviting all our supporters to submit designs for an official SRF mask.
Our latest Annual Report, detailing progress throughout 2019-2020, is now available online.
Our annual conference gathers together scientists and startups from around the globe who are accelerating rejuvenation therapies to repair the damage of aging.
May 13-15, Berlin
Listen to Edward James Olmos describe why SENS is invaluable to defeating aging.
Dr. Aubrey de Grey and SRF have joined Instagram @sensresearchfoundation
SENS Research Foundation works to develop, promote, and ensure widespread access to therapies that cure and prevent the diseases and disabilities of aging by comprehensively repairing the damage that builds up in our bodies over time. We are redefining the way the world researches and treats age-related ill health, while inspiring the next generation of biomedical scientists.
SENS Research Foundation is delighted to announce the release of our latest Annual Report, describing the progress of our work through 2019-2020.
The report includes sections on all of our active research projects and our outreach efforts around the world, introduces some new additions to the SRF team, and includes a tribute to founding CEO Mike Kope as well as details on his new position leading SRF spin-off Underdog Pharmaceuticals.
As ever, we’re tremendously grateful to the supporters whose donations have enabled us to make these steps towards a world free of age-related disease and disability.
Nearly half of the mammalian genome is long and short interspersed virus-like repetitive elements (LINEs and SINEs), which spread through the process of retrotransposition.
SRF is funding a study to test the impact of the removal of cells damaged by LINE/SINE reactivation on healthspan and lifespan, via the creation of a special transgenic mouse in the lab of Dr. Andrei Gudkov at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Recognizing the challenges that will face high school biology teachers in the upcoming academic year, SRF has launched the Research Integrated Science Education (RISE) Program to provide distance-friendly lessons that integrate experimental design and data interpretation concepts into the high school biology curriculum.
SRF spin-off Revel Pharmaceuticals, a privately held biotechnology company creating therapeutics to reverse and repair damage that results from aging – particularly extracellular crosslinks – has announced recent additions to its Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board.
The removal of damaged material from within atherosclerotic plaques (“fatty streaks”) to restore cardiovascular health is a key component of SENS, now being developed for the clinic by SRF ally Underdog Pharmaceuticals. Exciting new preclinical results from another group using this strategy have recently been published in ACS Nano.
Dr. Jonathan Clark’s SRF-funded group at the Babraham Institute have published two new papers showing that the current model in which aging tissues lose elasticity due to the accumulation of stable crosslinks is not the full story – results which will be crucial to reversing that deterioration.
“Senescent” cells progressively restrict the body’s capacity for tissue renewal and secrete factors that disrupt local tissue homeostasis. A new study provides proof-of-concept that ablation of these cells can delay — and potentially contribute to the reversal of — age-related tissue dysfunction and disease.
In conversation with Adam Ford, Dr. Aubrey de Grey explains how recent extraordinary results with senolytic drugs suggest that the milestone of “Robust Mouse Rejuvenation” – a key step towards comprehensively undoing human aging – could be as little as three years away.
SENS Research Foundation is now able to accept donations in Zcash (ZEC), in addition to eight other major cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, 0x (ZRX), USD Coin, and BAT. Visit the donate page for more information!
We’re grateful to cryptocurrency pioneer Vitalik Buterin for once again choosing to support SENS Research Foundation, with a generous donation of $350,000 in Ethereum towards our End of Year campaign to Reimagine Aging.
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