Business & startup
Long-term gut health and female finance, London likes longevity New York innovator Salvo Health has secured $8.5m in Series A round as it looks to develop new, long-term, gut-health treatments. The funding round was led by ManchesterStory, City Light Capital and Threshold Ventures, with additional support from The Artemis Fund, Owl Capital, Impact X Capital [...]
Key developments in biologics and technology are paving the way for a future in which degenerative diseases - such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s - can be identified and nullified before their onset. US physician Dr Annu Navani is driving these developments, which she believes will allow mankind to develop ‘the power to recode life itself’. [...]
Nearly a quarter of older patients facing delayed hospital discharge have dementia, costing the NHS £328m in 2024/25, a new report has revealed. Around 24 per cent of people aged 65 and over who are fit to be discharged but kept in hospital for a week longer than necessary are believed to have the condition, [...]
The Global Initiative on Ageing and Longevity has launched a North American chapter to boost innovation and economic transformation in the longevity sector. The organisation, known as GIA-L, said the new chapter will strengthen its mission to help people of all ages thrive across longer, healthier lives and tap into the growing longevity economy. Building [...]
Whilst running a US$100m-a-year technology business Paul Statham and his team turned their attention to longevity. Speaking to Agetech World the London-based entrepreneur took up the story: “ I travel extensively and the only way I could keep in touch with my late mother Kathy, who was suffering from dementia, was through the telephone. “But [...]
A university researcher has received a grant of up to US$150,000 to study how bone fractures may accelerate tissue ageing and test potential treatments. Dr Madison Doolittle, assistant professor in the Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development at the UConn School of Dental Medicine, recently received the funding from the American Federation for Aging [...]
Huimin Zhang of UC Riverside has received a 2025 AFAR Grant for Junior Faculty to study immune ageing, one of six awards this year. The Grants for Junior Faculty programme provides up to US$150,000 to junior faculty for one to two years to support research that will underpin longer-term work on the biology of ageing. [...]
Age Tech World explores the latest business developments in the world of age technology and longevity US$25m fund to reimagine human longevity India-based entrepreneur Deepinder Goyal has announced the launch of Continue Research, supported by a US$25m personal fund dedicated to advancing global longevity science. Continue Research was founded two years ago as an independent [...]
A new Los Angeles research centre, funded with US$6.5m over five years, aims to advance healthy ageing and help older adults live more independently. The National Institute on Aging has awarded the grant to create the Los Angeles Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (LA OAIC). The centre is a collaboration among Cedars-Sinai, the [...]
Nearly a quarter of NHS dementia service staff say they cannot provide patients with the best care, while fewer than a third believe diagnostic processes work. Workers are “being let down by a system that isn’t keeping pace with the scale of the challenge”, says a new survey raising concerns about dementia services across the [...]
