The LifeStar Institute is the public face of the Millard Foundation, a family organization whose principals decided a few years ago to throw their weight behind making rejuvenation medicine a reality. The LifeStar folk move in the same circles as the SENS Foundation and Methuselah Foundation, and have in the past advocated for the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence as the best technological path forward.

The Institute volunteers recently launched a new website to coincide with their call for global collaboration in longevity science, a message which can also be viewed as a video:

Leaders in the biology and polices of aging research at the first LifeStar Institute Global Aging Science Summit conclude the time has come to launch an ambitious global effort to keep aging generations youthful, productive, and engaged to unprecedented ages.

In laboratories all over the world, using genome sciences, diets including calorie restriction, and techniques of cell science and regenerative medicine, scientists are now keeping living organisms alive and healthy for increasing lengths of time never before thought possible. The obvious question: When will medical science do the same for us?

At this stage, the Institute is more concerned with the strategy of mobilizing resources than with the tactics of implementation:

What is needed - and does not yet exist - is a concerted, focused, competent, and fully-funded effort to finish the development of the complete set of therapies and protocols that will prevent the occurrence of the diseases of aging. ... The LifeStar Institute was established to accelerate the development of solutions to this mounting aging crisis through extraordinary leadership, collaboration and advocacy.

So a great deal of networking and persuasion is taking place behind the scenes, and has been for a few years now. The LifeStar Institute list of advisors is a who's who of big names in modern aging research, for example. Keep an eye on the activities of the Institute: these first years of the new decade are the foundational stage for the next phase in longevity science.