The Longevity Initiative @longevityinit
A think tank and educational organisation working towards a world free from age-related disease. Founded by @statto and @shoylev. the-li.org Joined December 2025-
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Our Director Andrew Steele (@statto) was interviewed for @BBCRadio4 ’s Rethink, on the difference between chronological and biological age, and the first treatments aiming to close it. Listen here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Our Director @shoylev will be at the @foresightinst #VisionWeekendLondon. If you would like to find out more about longevity policy, join us for office hours or a chat! foresight.org/events/vision-…
We spoke with @chamath’s team from @socialcapital for their new Deep Dive on longevity! Ageing is the biggest shared risk factor for the diseases that kill us, but they find that it gets just 0.25% of global biomedical R&D. Read more here: chamath.substack.com/p/longevity-pa…
Pleasure to meet you, @vladileshko! We agree, of course. :) x.com/vladileshko/st…
Met Kamen and Andrew from @longevityinit at Vitalist Bay. They’re working on one of the highest-leverage longevity plays: getting governments to pour BILLIONS into aging research. Advocacy like this might be 100x–1000x more impactful than funding research directly. Make sure
An interesting read for those in the longevity space x.com/longevityinit/…
New post: Can longevity save us from a population crisis? We tried out @OurWorldInData’s new population projection tool to see if increasing life expectancy could save us from demographic decline: thelongevityinitiative.org/2026/05/longev…
We’ve been on there for a while, but just officially launched on @LinkedIn! Check out our article on what we started a think tank, not a biotech – and please give us a follow over there and share our page with your network. linkedin.com/pulse/welcome-…
Lovely to see a spike in traffic for our 2025 longevity business round-up last week as the @RetroBio_ news broke! If you're catching up on the reprogramming gold rush, the biotech funding drought and recent big exits, it’s all here: thelongevityinitiative.org/2026/01/busine…
Ageing kills 83% of Americans. It gets 0.8% of the research budget. thelongevityinitiative.org/2026/05/resear…
@drrichjlaw @CrisprGlenn @theA4LI What I don’t think follows from that is that research specifically targeting aging should get *so* much less funding per death/economic cost/etc than other conditions. – @statto
@drrichjlaw @CrisprGlenn @theA4LI I think I see where you’re going! And I’d push back slightly—all fields have spillovers and (as we mention in the post) we should try to account for these when allocating funding. But this cuts both ways: funding for ‘aging biology’ would likely also help eg diabetes research.
Does NIH research funding track what actually kills Americans? Building on @theA4LI’s new report, we ran the numbers: and ageing fares worst. Ageing causes 83% of deaths, yet receives just 1.2% of the research funding per death that cancer does—around $1 per American per year.
A fantastic complement to our whitepaper, kudos! The math on our current funding allocation within the NIH simply does not add up, and only by Realigning For Impact can we bring research funding in line with what really kills us. If @longevityinit's report, or ours has convinced you, we urge you to sign the petition to get this issue in front of your representatives! actionnetwork.org/petitions/real…
Does NIH research funding track what actually kills Americans? Building on @theA4LI’s new report, we ran the numbers: and ageing fares worst. Ageing causes 83% of deaths, yet receives just 1.2% of the research funding per death that cancer does—around $1 per American per year.
Read our full analysis here: thelongevityinitiative.org/2026/05/resear…
New post: Can longevity save us from a population crisis? We tried out @OurWorldInData’s new population projection tool to see if increasing life expectancy could save us from demographic decline: thelongevityinitiative.org/2026/05/longev…
The Human Ageing Genomic Resources are vital open-source databases on longevity genes and drugs, and animal lifespans. It would be a loss to the field if it goes offline due to funding cuts. See @jpsenescence’s post here for more details and how to support:
🚨 The Human Ageing Genomic Resources Are at Risk For over 20 years, our Human Ageing Genomic Resources (HAGR) have supported ageing and longevity research worldwide (200,000+ users per year, 1,000+ citations, widely used by academic labs and longevity biotech). Due to shifting
🚨 The Human Ageing Genomic Resources Are at Risk For over 20 years, our Human Ageing Genomic Resources (HAGR) have supported ageing and longevity research worldwide (200,000+ users per year, 1,000+ citations, widely used by academic labs and longevity biotech). Due to shifting UK government funding priorities, our infrastructure funding was not renewed in 2024, and these databases are now at risk of going offline. We are raising funds to cover basic server costs and secure their continuity while we pursue long-term funding. If these resources have supported your research, your company, or your thinking, please consider helping sustain them. justgiving.com/page/human-age…
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