Here you will find pointers to activist and advocacy groups for enhanced human longevity, better medicine, longevity research, and stem cell and regenerative medicine.

Resources

Alliance for Aging Research A non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and accelerating the pace of medical discoveries to vastly improve the universal experience of aging and health. They offer a wide range of useful resources and links on their web site. American Aging Association (AGE) AGE is a non-profit group advocating biomedical studies to slow the aging process, public education about aging and healthy life extension research, and better knowledge of gerontology among physicians. Biogerontology Research Foundation Basic biochemical research seeks to elucidate the workings of biological systems, thereby producing an invaluable body of knowledge about how we age at the molecular and cellular level. Great strides have been made in this field in recent years, and the research discipline called Biogerontology is well respected. Yet, acquiring this important information does not of itself improve human health. There is a gap between discovering the nature of ageing and incorporating that knowledge into medical practice. The Biogerontology Research Foundation seeks to fill this gap within the research community, whereby the current scientific understanding of the ageing process is not yet being sufficiently exploited to produce effective medical interventions. Campaign for Aging Research A non-profit founded in 2009 focused on advocacy for engineered longevity and fundraising for Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) research. Maximum Life Foundation The mission of the Maximum Life Foundation is to accelerate the pace of research on the human aging process. Senescence, the destructive process that is responsible for human aging, is a primary cause behind heart disease, cancer, stroke, type II diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease. The Foundation has created a network of scientists, physicians, and biotechnology industry professionals to use their talents and resources to develop a strategic plan to understand and treat the underlying causes of these disease processes. Science Against Aging The Science Against Aging initiative is organized by the Russian "Science for Life Extension" foundation, an advocacy group with strong ties to the Russian gerontology community and a lot in common with the US-based Methuselah Foundation. SENS Foundation SENS Foundation was founded to develop, promote and ensure widespread access to regenerative medicine solutions to the disabilities and diseases of aging. We shall be focusing on the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) identified by our Chief Science Officer, Dr Aubrey de Grey, and combining direct research efforts with education, affiliation and outreach programs. The Immortality Institute The Immortality Institute is a grassroots organization founded to help humanity conquer the blight of involuntary death. We depend on the generous help of members and volunteers to gather information, fund projects, promote scientific research and discuss questions concerning the possibility of human physical immortality. The LifeStar Institute The LifeStar Institute has been created to do, or cause to be done, whatever is necessary to develop and make available to all human beings, repeatable clinical protocols which repair, reverse, and reduce the accumulations of damage and changes which interfere with the human body’s innate ability to defend itself from disease and loss of functionality, as soon as humanly possible. The Methuselah Foundation The Methuselah Foundation works towards promoting effective scientific research for healthy life extension. The Methuselah Foundation runs the well regarded Mprize for longevity research and supports Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence research conducted by the SENS Foundation. Vitae Institute The Vitae Institute is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization incorporated in 2006 to forward a scientific understanding of the mechanisms of aging and to develop technology and therapies to cure age-associated pathologies.

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