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Catalyst Awardee

Final Catalyst Awards Recognize 88 Innovators, Investing in Bold Ideas for Healthy Longevity

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), together with six global partners spanning more than 50 countries and territories, today announced the recipients of the 2025 Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards. Part of the NAM’s Healthy Longevity Global Competition, these awards celebrate cutting-edge research and entrepreneurship aimed at advancing breakthroughs in…

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Catalyst Awardee

2025 Catalyst Awards Open: Last Annual Call for Bold, Transformative Ideas to Promote Healthy Longevity

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), with support from Johnson & Johnson Innovation, United Therapeutics, and the Yun Family Foundation, announces the opening of applications for the 2025 Catalyst Awards cycle, part of the broader Healthy Longevity Global Competition. This award recognizes bold, innovative ideas with the potential…

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Catalyst Awardee

Small Changes Make Major Impact: DNA Changes in Neurodegenerative Disease

This series features winners of the Healthy Longevity Global Competition, founded by the National Academy of Medicine, to extend the human health span by accelerating research, innovation, and entrepreneurism in healthy longevity. Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo de Chile (ANID) (the National Agency of Research and Development of …

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96 Innovators Awarded Funds to Kickstart Innovation in the Field of Healthy Longevity

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), with seven global collaborators representing over 50 countries and territories, present the awardees of the 2024 Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards. The awards are part of the NAM’s Healthy Longevity Global Competition, focused on stimulating research and entrepreneurism to support potential breakthroughs in healthy longevity.…

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Catalyst Awardee

Blending Music and Science to Help People Living with Alzheimer’s Disease

This series features winners of the Healthy Longevity Global Competition, founded by the National Academy of Medicine to extend the human health span by accelerating research, innovation, and entrepreneurism in healthy longevity. The National Academy of Medicine funded the project featured in this story.

The challenge of meeting the…

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Using AI to Recognize and Avoid Fall-Related Injuries in Older Adults

To keep up with the world’s rapidly aging population, the NAM launched the Healthy Longevity Global Competition, a multi-stage global competition designed to seek out bold, innovative, and breakthrough ideas that challenge the way we think about aging. The Catalyst Award, the first stage of the competition, rewards exciting opportunities …

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Taking a Community-focused Approach to Healthy Longevity

To keep up with the world’s rapidly aging population, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) launched the Healthy Longevity Global Competition, a multi-stage global competition designed to seek out bold, innovative, and breakthrough ideas that challenge the way we think about aging. The Catalyst Award, the first stage of the …

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Catalyst Awardee

NAM Seeks Innovative Ideas Promoting Healthy Longevity for the 2023 Catalyst Awards

With just a 2-page narrative submission, applicants can be considered for a Catalyst Award and earn $50K in seed funding for their bold, innovative ideas to extend the human healthspan. The award also provides winners opportunities for international collaboration, networking, and recognition as well as opportunities for subsequent funding. As…

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Catalyst Awardee

Exploring the Potential of Sirolimus in Delaying Aging and Age-Related Diseases

To keep up with the world’s rapidly aging population, the NAM launched the Healthy Longevity Global Competition, a multi-stage global competition designed to seek out bold, innovative, and breakthrough ideas that challenge the way we think about aging. The Catalyst Award, the first stage of the competition, rewards exciting opportunities …

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Catalyst Awardee

Enabling Balance in Older Adults with Wearable AI Technology

To keep up with the world’s rapidly aging population, the NAM launched the Healthy Longevity Global Competition, a multi-stage global competition designed to seek out bold, innovative, and breakthrough ideas that challenge the way we think about aging. The Catalyst Award, the first stage of the competition, rewards exciting opportunities …

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