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Generating Joy for Patients with Dementia using AI

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 …

Catalyst Awardee

Decoding the Centenarians’ Secret to Disease Resistance and Longevity

Catalyst Awardee

Determining the Restorative Potential of GV-58 to Prevent Age-Related Muscle Weakness

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 …

Catalyst Awardee

NAM Seeks Innovative Ideas Promoting Healthy Longevity for the 2022 Catalyst Awards

With just a 2-page submission, applicants have the opportunity to win a $50k Catalyst Award, offering seed funding for their bold, innovative ideas to extend the human healthspan. In addition to Catalyst Award winners, other applicants who make it to the final round of review will automatically be considered for …

Catalyst Awardee

Uncovering the Mysteries of Human Aging to Prevent and Cure Disease

What happens to our cells as we age? Can we reverse aging at the cellular level to delay or prevent age-related diseases, improving human health and longevity? For Dr. Bianca Migliori, who is fascinated with leveraging technology to speed the discovery of cures for rare and major diseases, these are…

Catalyst Awardee

Striking Gold: The Application of Catalytic Gold Nanocrystal Technology to Therapeutic Development for Alzheimer’s and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases

As society advances towards a healthier future, a key component in ensuring public health is the development of therapeutics to treat neurodegenerative diseases. Cutting-edge discoveries in nanotechnology hold enormous promise for combatting age-related neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease),…

Catalyst Awardee

Changing the paradigm: Moving from an episodic to a digital and continuous health care system

As a society, we have rapidly transitioned into a world of digital know-how. Every day digital technologies have the opportunity to revolutionize our lives. Today, nearly every smartphone or smartwatch has the capacity to produce 1 million measurements per day for every person on earth, but most of this data

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Catalyst Awardee

Understanding Brain Resiliency to Improve the Experience of Aging

By Olivia Ramirez The brain has vast and innumerable complexities in its structure and function. Dr. Michael McConnell is one of the scientists working to better understand the brain and more specifically why some brains retain full function despite showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease post-mortem. McConnell has always been interested…

Catalyst Awardee

Using Biological Age to Detect and Mitigate Chronic Disease

By Olivia Ramirez Dr. Vineet Raghu set out to pursue a career in medicine when he began attending the University of Pittsburgh. But, two years into his undergraduate studies, he took a computer science course and his plans changed. Raghu developed a passion for computational genomics, the process of using…

Catalyst Awardee

Facilitating Connections Between Older Adults to Help Others and Themselves

By Olivia Ramirez As a long-distance family caregiver to his 87-year-old mother, Claude Goodman understands the concerns many families have about aging loved ones who are often living at a distance — and, increasingly, in isolation. Concerns like, Is my loved one taking their medicine every day? Are they socializing? …

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