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VitaDAO Summer Recap Newsletter
September 6, 2024
VitaDAO Summer Recap Newsletter
We're excited to share with you a recap of what was an incredibly busy summer and new opportunities that you'll soon have the opportunity to take part in.
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June Longevity Research Newsletter
July 19, 2024
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
June Longevity Research Newsletter
Welcome back, Vitalians! This month we’re celebrating VitaDAO’s 3rd birthday! It’s been an exciting journey, and we’re thrilled to share our progress and future plans with you. In the past three years, VitaDAO has evaluated over 200 projects, funded
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VitaDAO Letter: Tokenization of the Artan Bio IP-NFT
June 24, 2024
Sarah Friday
VitaDAO Letter: Tokenization of the Artan Bio IP-NFT
Happy DeSci Summer, Vitalians! For those new here, VitaDAO is a global community working together to fund groundbreaking longevity research. As a $VITA token holder, you play a crucial role in ...
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January Longevity Research Newsletter
February 6, 2024
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
January Longevity Research Newsletter
Welcome back Vitalians. I’m sure that most of you would have by now heard the sad news that renowned Professor Judith Campisi has passed away. In place of our usual interview, this month ...
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December Longevity Research Newsletter
January 11, 2024
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
December Longevity Research Newsletter
Welcome to 2024, Vitalians! We hope your holiday season was wonderful, and that you're returning recharged and ready for another year of exciting developments in longevity science!
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November Longevity Research Newsletter
December 5, 2023
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
November Longevity Research Newsletter
Welcome back Vitalians and please join us in congratulating the Remedium Bio team for passing the VitaDAO token holder vote with 75.61% voting in favour!
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October Longevity Research Newsletter
November 7, 2023
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
October Longevity Research Newsletter
Welcome back Vitalians and please join us in congratulating the Oisín Biotechnologies team for passing the VitaDAO token holder vote with 86.47% voting in favour! This proposal was an assessment of a multi-asset longevity biotech...
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September Longevity Research Newsletter
October 10, 2023
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
September Longevity Research Newsletter
Welcome back Vitalians, it’s a big week for VitaDAO as we’ve just become the first DAO to kickstart a biotech company, MatrixBio. MatrixBio explores hyaluronic acid-based compounds, aiming to pioneer in cancer and aging treatments...
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August Longevity Research Newsletter
September 8, 2023
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
August Longevity Research Newsletter
Welcome back Vitalians and please join us in congratulating the Cyclarity Therapeutics (CTx) team for passing the VitaDAO token holder vote! This proposal was an assessment of an early-stage biotechnology company...
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July Longevity Research Newsletter
August 10, 2023
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
July Longevity Research Newsletter
Welcome back Vitalians! Stop the press - the Impetus Longevity grants are back!
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June Longevity Research Newsletter
July 10, 2023
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
June Longevity Research Newsletter
Welcome to this month's newsletter, where we delve into the philosophical dichotomy at the heart of longevity research.
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May Longevity Research Newsletter
June 9, 2023
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
May Longevity Research Newsletter
Introduction Welcome to this month's edition of our newsletter, where we delve into the fascinating realm of gerontology - the scientific study of ageing - which has increasingly become a pivotal area of research, given the world's ageing population.
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April Longevity Research Newsletter
May 16, 2023
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
April Longevity Research Newsletter
We are thrilled to celebrate our one-year anniversary of bringing you the latest research, insights, and developments in our field. Over the past year, we have covered a wide range of topics, from artificial intelligence and sustainability to genetic
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March Longevity Research Newsletter
April 9, 2023
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
March Longevity Research Newsletter
Welcome back Vitalians! In recent years, autophagy has emerged as an important topic in the field of aging biology and is now considered a major Hallmark of Aging.
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‍February Longevity Research Newsletter‍
March 10, 2023
Rhys Anderson & Maria Marinova
‍February Longevity Research Newsletter‍
Following our successful fundraise of $4.1 million (check out the Forbes article), a new wave of projects are in the pipeline to be funded. First up in 2023 is Brain Tissue Replacement Therapy with Jean Hebert
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January Longevity Research Newsletter
February 3, 2023
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
January Longevity Research Newsletter
The Longevity field is starting the year strongly with new updated Hallmarks of aging, exactly 10 years after the original paper was published. So time to update your introduction slides with the figure we will see in every presentation for the next
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December Longevity Research Newsletter
December 20, 2022
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
December Longevity Research Newsletter
As the end of the year is fast approaching we wanted to look back and appreciate all the effort and hard work of the researchers in the VitaDAO community - from students, postdocs and fellows to principal investigators
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November Longevity Research Newsletter
November 15, 2022
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
November Longevity Research Newsletter
A multitude of discoveries and inventions throughout history have been made by people who were initially trained in one domain, but were able to make a significant contribution to a different field due to their ability to look at a problem with a uni
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October Longevity Research Newsletter
October 13, 2022
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
October Longevity Research Newsletter
Some species in the animal kingdom live extraordinarily long lives. They seem to be somehow protected from all the damage that we would expect to accumulate in aged tissues. Many are very large, like bowhead whales, and there is an established correl
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Longevity Research Newsletter July 2022
July 8, 2022
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
Longevity Research Newsletter July 2022
Why do we age? Is aging a result of a genetic program encoded within each of our cells, or is it simply a consequence of damage accumulation throughout life?
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 7 July 2022
July 7, 2022
Sarah Friday
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 7 July 2022
June was a month of celebration for VitaDAO! This June, VitaDAO celebrated its first birthday, held a ceremony for the transfer of VitaDAO's third IP-NFT, and completed another Gitcoin Grant Round.
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Longevity Research Newsletter June 2022
June 13, 2022
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
Longevity Research Newsletter June 2022
Welcome back to VitaDAO’s monthly longevity research newsletter — we hope you enjoyed our maiden issue!
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 6 June 2022
June 6, 2022
Sarah Friday
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 6 June 2022
They say April showers bring May flowers. Instead of flowers, we hope we rose to the occasion with June’s newsletter to show how VitaDAO flourished this May.
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Longevity Research Newsletter May 2022
May 17, 2022
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
Longevity Research Newsletter May 2022
Welcome Vitalians to the inaugural issue of VitaDAO’s Monthly Longevity Research Newsletter!
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 5 May 2022
May 1, 2022
Sarah Friday & Hossam Zaki
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 5 May 2022
Hello Vitalians! April Fools might have started the month, but we promise this Newsletter is no joke! Many people in VitaDAO were able to attend ETHAmsterdam for one of the first ever DeSci days, featuring talks about all things DeSci
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 4 April 2022
April 7, 2022
Sarah Friday & Hossam Zaki
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 4 April 2022
Hello Vitalians! Another month, another newsletter- and we couldn’t be more excited about it. Many of the core contributors to the DAO were able to meet up in sunny ☀️ Lisbon this month to organize, bond, and brainstorm in person.
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 3 March 2022
March 3, 2022
Sarah Friday & Hossam Zaki
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 3 March 2022
We know we say it every month, but the VitaDAO community has been busy. We’ve been told to shorten these newsletters, but in all honesty, all that happened in VitaDAO this month makes that difficult!
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 2 Feb 2022
February 1, 2022
Sarah Friday & Hossam Zaki
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 2 Feb 2022
In this January edition of the VitaDAO Newsletter, you can learn about VitaDAO proposals that passed over the last month, get to know DAO rockstar Alex Dobrin, and more!
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 1 Jan 2021
December 31, 2021
Sarah Friday & Hossam Zaki
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 1 Jan 2021
The VitaDAO community has been hard at work this year pioneering the future of longevity research and IP-NFTs. These past few weeks have been particularly exciting! In this December edition of the VitaDAO Newsletter you will find updates on what has
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