Fight Aging!

The latest SENS Research Foundation newsletter just arrived, and covers a range of topics. The year-end fundraiser has been underway for the past couple of weeks, with 15% of the main goal reached. Our Fight Aging! SENS Patron challenge has further to go, however: there is a $36,000 matching fund to claim, and we'll match the next year of donations for anyone who signs up as a monthly donor at the SENS Research Foundation before the end of the year. Spread the word! The next big fundraising event of 2017 is Giving Tuesday on November 28th, and any help you can provide is much appreciated. Tell your friends about the potential of rejuvenation research, and just how effective past donations for SENS research have proven to be - we are in the first stages of generating great and positive change in the world, producing the foundation for new medical technologies that can treat the causes of aging.

Many of the proven successes of the SENS programs, under the Methuselah Foundation and then the SENS Research Foundation, have taken the form of turning our charitable donations into biotechnologies that make the leap to startup companies for clinical development. Gensight Biologics, Human.bio, Ichor Therapeutics, Oisin Biotechnologies are all built atop SENS research programs, running clinical development of SENS technologies, or seed funded by Methuselah Foundation and SENS Research Foundation to work on rejuvenation therapies in the SENS portfolio. More companies are coming, as demonstrated by last month's industry and academia meet and greet event noted below - existing companies and SENS technologies soon to be taken forward by new startup companies. You'll notice that David Spiegel was there, presenting on glucosepane antibodies and other portions of his work on cross-link breaking as a rejuvenation therapy, funded by our donations of past years. You can join the dots and speculate on just how close that and other ongoing SENS work might be to making the jump from lab to company, I'm sure.

The point, however, is that we helped to make this happen. Without our support to power the activities of the SENS Research Foundation and its allies, we would be not be in the position of celebrating anywhere near as much progress today in this field. Charitable donations are required to help keep this process going, to work through the many other areas of rejuvenation research that are proceeding too slowly or not at all. There are few other causes and few other non-profit organizations in which modest levels of financial support can produce such profound effects on the future of humanity: the promise of more health and life for all.

SRF Adds New Reward Drawings to 2017 Year-End Campaign

We would like to thank everyone who has donated so far to our year-end campaign. In just over two weeks, we have raised $37,803! This is a great start, but we still have a long way to go before reaching the $250,000 goal, and we are counting on you to help us get there. To help encourage you, we have decided to add monthly drawings to our campaign. On November 30th and December 31st, we will be drawing two winners from among all the donors who gave during that month. In each of these monthly drawings, one donor will receive a new long sleeve SENS t-shirt, and the other will receive a polo shirt in their size.

Also, on Giving Tuesday, we will be drawing three winners from among everyone who donates that day to receive exclusive SRF gift packs. Each gift pack will include a long sleeve t-shirt, a polo shirt, an SRF notebook and pen, and a signed copy of Ending Aging. Please mark your calendars - Giving Tuesday is November 28, 2017, and it's a great day to commit your support to helping SRF in our fight to cure age-related disease. So if you are as determined as we are to alleviate the grave human costs and suffering from conditions like cancer, Alzheimer's, atherosclerosis, and other age-related health problems, go to SRF's donate page today. Thank you so much.

CLSI and SRF Meet To Advance Rejuvenation Biotech Industry

In September, California Life Sciences Institute (CLSI) members and supporters, SENS Research Foundation (SRF) major donors, and other leaders from our biotech community met in San Francisco for an evening of insight and networking opportunities. The California Life Sciences Institute (CLSI) supports California's leadership in life sciences innovation through its entrepreneurship, education and career development programs. CLSI's FAST (Fellows All-Star Team) Accelerator provides select entrepreneurs with intensive team review and coaching to perfect their business model, product development plans, and to build a compelling commercialization strategy.

To leverage the opportunities presented at this unique point in the emergence of the rejuvenation biotech industry, CLSI and SRF brought together a selection of recent FAST companies with a rejuvenation biotechnology focus, and SRF translational research projects that will become the rejuvenation biotech companies of tomorrow. The focus of the program was to highlight and share information about and between key players poised to directly impact the direction and growth of these companies and the healthcare industry.

Undoing Aging 2018: Call for Poster Submissions

The 2018 Undoing Aging Conference will include poster sessions on the first two evenings. In addition, a small number of posters will be selected for oral presentation; those selected should also prepare a poster. Poster topics should lie within the scope of the conference: scientific/medical research contributing to the eventual postponement of age-related decline in health, with an emphasis on measures that repair damage rather than slowing its creation. Poster submissions are due on January 15, 2018. To submit your poster, please visit the Abstracts page on the Undoing Aging website.

SRF Summer Scholars Program Update

The 2017 SRF Summer Scholars Program culminated this year with our undergraduate researchers gathering at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine to summarize the results of their summer projects. The Summer Scholars and mentors also attended the Meeting on the Mesa Scientific Symposium at the Salk Institute. View the 2018 Summer Scholars information page to learn more about the research opportunities being offered for 2018. Online applications will be available on December 1, 2017 and applications will be accepted until February 5, 2018. Our Summer Scholars Program is made possible by our donors' generous support. Please consider donating today to help support our 2018 student researchers.​