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App with AI for a Smartwatch and Smartphone That Detects Early Signs of Parkinson’s Disease

Catalyst Awardee

Igor Dzhekiev, Denis Gridnev, and Eugene Nikolaev | Insubiq Inc
Competition Sponsor: National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2020 An application for smartwatches that uses artificial intelligence to detect early…

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Year 2023 2022 2021 2020

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Automated Cell Profiling Platform for Anti-Aging Drug Discovery

Bianca Migliori, PhD | New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute
Competition Sponsor: U.S. National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2020 Age-dependent diseases are the leading cause of death and morbidity in industrialized countries. It is increasingly recognized that a more efficient strategy than targeting individual diseases will be to…

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Can Hormetic Stress Increase Vagal Tone and Slow Cell Aging?

Elissa Epel, PhD, Wendy Mendes, PhD, and Aric Prather, PhD | University of California, San Francisco
Competition Sponsor: U.S. National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2020 There have been remarkable discoveries about life extension in lower organisms such as worms using hormetic stress.  Hormetic stress includes short term moderate stressors…

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CareBank: A PeerCare Platform Connecting Elders for the Pandemic and Aftermath

Claude Goodman | CareWheels Corporation; and Alan DeLaTorre, PhD | City of Portland, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability; Mark Leavitt, PhD, MD | CareWheels Corporation
Competition Sponsor: National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2020 Loneliness and medication non-adherence are public health problems unsolved by conventional interventions. Recognizing these problems…

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Care Corps USA: A National Service Model Addressing the Aging Sector Workforce

Nihal Satyadev, MPH | University of Medicine and Health Sciences; Norma Bostarr, and Heena Doshi, MPH
Competition Sponsor: National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2020 In the United States, more than 10,000 people turn 65 every day. Put this statistic alongside the fact that our birth rate is at…

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Centenarian Species Genomes Project

Glenn Gerhard, MD | Lewiz Katz School of Medicine at Temple University; and Sudhir Kumar, PhD | Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, Temple University
Competition Sponsor: National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2020 The central tenet to our idea is that in order to extend the human healthspan,…

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Deep Learning to Predict Biological Age and Longevity from Chest Radiographs

Vineet Raghu, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital; Jakob Weiss, MD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; and Michael Lu, MD, MPH | Massachusetts General Hospital
Competition Sponsor: U.S. National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2020 Age-related chronic disease causes 60% of deaths in the US. Primary prevention (e.g. statin to…

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Development of an Implantable, Continuously Operating, Patient-Friendly Renal Replacement System for Transforming Home Dialysis

Nikhil Shah, DO, MPH | Nephrodite, Inc., University of Texas, Austin; and Hiep T. Nguyen, MD | Banner Health System
Competition Sponsor: National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2020 We are developing a fully implantable, fully mechanical, continuous hemodialysis device that is designed to be a bridge to transplant…

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Elucidating Mechanisms Through Which the Gut Microbiome Can Be Optimized Across the Human Lifespan

Nathan D. Price, PhD | Institute for Systems Biology; Sean Gibbons, PhD | Institute for Systems Biology; Leroy Hood, MD, PhD | Institute for Systems Biology and Providence St. Joseph Health; and Eric Orwoll, MD | Oregon Health Sciences University
Competition Sponsor: U.S. National Academy of Medicine…

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Genetic Regulation of Exceptional Longevity in Rockfishes

Stephen Treaster, PhD | Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Competition Sponsor: National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2020 Rockfishes (Sebastes genus), with nearly twenty-fold variation in longevity, are an untapped source of natural experiments in modulating, and resisting, the deleterious effects of age. The longest-lived can maintain health…

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