The VitaDAO Fellowship

Funding the future of longevity science

We are funding people with need-based grants to help you to get more deeply involved in longevity ($100 up to $3k). For example, we would fund you to do research, take a break to focus on getting deeper into longevity, attend a conference, or join a program such as On Deck Longevity Fellowship.

This fellowship was enabled by our generous donors from our Gitcoin project “Longevity Fellowship Grants” (massive thanks to Vitalik for his generous matching, alongside Stefan George, many others, and VitaDAO itself)!

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The why and how of our fellowship program

The benefits

Fast grants of up to $3,000 for exploring longevity related research(no strings attached donation)

How to apply

Send us a short description of how you would use the funds and benefit from them

Program Results

$55,000+

Funds Distributed

$30,000

Fellowship Donations

55+

Fellows Funded

What VitaDAO Fellows are saying

Great to see VitaDAO fellows practising longevity research! 🧑‍🔬

We are currently raising donations for supporting another group of people with micro-grants who are entering the field.

We plan to have something ready sometime in february.

Apply here: https://vitadao.com/fellowship
— VitaDAO (@vita_dao) Jan 2, 2023

It’s been an absolute pleasure sharing our research w/@LindsayWu_UNSW at the first ever Reproductive Aging Conference @#RACSRC22 . Thanks @jenngarrison @GCRLE1 @NUDuncanLab for putting this together and @vita_dao for making it possible for me to attend via the VitaDAO fellowship pic.twitter.com/oeNKf1QSse
— Maria Marinova (@m__marinova) June 8, 2022

Follow VitaDAO fellow @wanghelenh doing amazing research on skin wound healing.

"Thanks VitaDAO for supporting my participation at the CSHL 2022 Mechanisms of Aging meeting where I presented my exciting project "Cellular rejuvenation for skin wound healing"! #cshlaging" pic.twitter.com/oLkyrt4am8
— VitaDAO 💛 (@vita_dao) October 4, 2022

Incredibly thankful to @vincentweisser and @vita_dao for the VitaDao Longevity Fellowship! It means I can join the On Deck Longevity Biotech second cohort kicking off late Feb. Thank you @realNathanCheng and team for creating this exciting program 🥳
— Edward Anderton (@EdwardAnderton7) February 9, 2022

So incredibly happy to be part of the first group of @vita_dao fellows! Thanks @vincentweisser for the amazing opportunity. If you haven’t heard of the VitaDao Fellowship and are interested in pursuing a project in longevity, totally check them out https://t.co/nO37J0zu0V
— Carol Magalhaes (@_Carol_Mag) January 31, 2022

my deepest gratitude to @vita_dao for funding my attendance to @LessDeathOrg greatest opportunity of my life so far
— Di Hu (@dihuscientistdj) August 2, 2022

Meet our Fellows

Lan Dao

Fertility rejuvenation researcher, MD Université de Montréal

Maria Marinova

PhD Candidate at UNSW Medicine & ODLB1 Fellow

Subaita Rahman

Biotech Startups Pillar VC & Petri & Co-Founder Nucleate Dojo & The Dojo House

Anna Kotanska

Chemistry Student at Oxford University

Samuel Hinthorn

PhD Student at Brown University Studying Computational Biology & Senescence

Kathrin Kajderowicz

PhD Student at MIT

Ali Doğa Yücel

Undergraduate Researcher at Stem Cell Laboratory, KUTTAM

Raiany Romanni-Klein

Science & Technology Writer & PhD Candidate at Harvard Medical School

Noah Weber

CTO at Celeris Therapeutics

Sarah Friday

Medical Student at Wake Forest School of Medicine & Newswoman at Web3 Women In Science

Henry Miller

Bioinformatician, PhD Candidate, NIH/NIA F31 Fellow, Founder & President of the Bioinformatics Research Network

Matilde Miranda

Skin Biologist & JSPS Postdoc Fellow

Adrian Molière

MSc Student at ETH Zurich

Isaak Freeman

Executive Director at the Future Forum & Neuroscience at the University of Oxford

Alex K Chen

Venture Fellow at Healthspan Capital

Alexandru Bacita

Immunology Scientist at Charles River Laboratories

Zeel Patel

Computer Science & Neuroscience at Harvard University

Joseph Regan

Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from The Institute of Cancer Research (University of London)

Oleg Shramko

Research on Stenosis Assessment via Volumetric Flow Rate Calculation

Gabriela Desdin

Postdoc at Ocampo Lab Switzerland

Larisa Sarghie

Bioinformatician & PhD Candidate

Jose Cordeiro

Venezuelan-Spanish Engineer, Economist, Futurist & Transhumanist

Nora Gedeon

Hands-on Support in Clinical Outsourcing & Co-founder of EverGoal

Alexander Anisimov

Alzheimer's Disease & Aging Researcher

Michael Trinh

Co-founder & Managing Director at Nucleate Dojo

Rakhan Aimbetov

Fellow at the Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan

Alex Voda

DPHIL Student at University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division

Ned Nadima

Building Friska Labs, an open, programmable ledger for biomarkers

Ines Simo

Venture Analyst at Apollo Health Ventures

Lucas Bronicki

Associate Head in the Genetics Diagnostic Laboratory at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

Hui Xin Ng

PhD Student in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego

Ada Nguyen

Partner at On Deck Longevity Biotech

Shayan Omar Rabbi

Genetics, Philosophy & NucleateDojo Cohort 2

Edward Anderton

Biology of Aging PhD Student at the Buck Institute for Research in Aging & the University of Southern California

Alan Tomusiak

PhD Student at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Matthew Johnson

Bioinformatics PhD Candidate at University of California San Francisco

Björn Olaisen

Genetics BSc Student &Future Biogerontologist

Carol Magalhaes

Student at Northwestern University, On Deck Longevity Biotech and Co-Founder of Dojo House

Foluwasomi Oyefeso

PhD Candidate at Loma Linda University with background in Biomedical Engineering

Andreas Melhede

Core Founding Member & Community Lead at FutrDAO

Joanne Zichen Peng

Aging research, Boyden lab at MIT

Mahdi Moqri

Postdoc at Harvard Medical School. Working with Gladyshev and David Sinclair labs.

Brandon Spencer Lockey

President of Cambridge University Longevity Society

Magnus Strange

Researcher in Scheibye-Knudsen Lab

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