The VitaDAO Longevity Fellowship
Area
Public good and community building
Status
Operational, multiple cohorts
Background
The VitaDAO Longevity Fellowship was started as a public good effort to support students and other early career individuals to pursue their interest in longevity. The benefits for the fellows are apparent with fast grants of up to 65,000 to date for exploring longevity related research or attending professional meetings and conferences (no strings attached donation). Application process is made as easy and simple as possible and the main selection criteria is a short description of how the applicant would use the funds and benefit from them. Previous rounds of this fellowship were enabled by our generous donors from our Gitcoin project “Longevity Fellowship Grants” (including generous matching by Vitalik Buterin, alongside Stefan George, and many others) or VitaDAO donations.
Aims, Hypothesis & Results
The Fellowship is aimed at deepening the interest in longevity, or potentially even driving a career pivot, for students and early career researchers. This is achieved by microgrants, mostly used by fellows to attend conferences, visit collaborators labs or do small scale research in an area of interest.
So far the program results have been apparent with $65,000+ of funds distributed and 65+ fellows funded.
Latest Project Updates
VitaDAO is proud to support 9 more outstanding fellows. The funded applications range from conference attendance and presentations to sponsoring independent and collaborative research projects.
Discover more projects & initiatives
The Longevity Prize
The Longevity Prize is a series of prizes to award and accelerate progress in longevity and rejuvenation research. It was initiated by VitaDAO and funded through donations through our gitcoin quadratic donation round and partnered with Foresight Institute, Methuselah Foundation and Lifespan.
Humanity - Proprietary Aging Score App
Humanity is a quantified-self app that connects wearables and activity apps to monitor digital biomarkers. The app generates a proprietary aging score, helping users understand activities that slow down or reverse their aging rate. The company uses behavior modification tools and develops biomarkers to guide users toward better healthspan interventions.
Matrix Bio - Long-lived Species Inspired Longevity Biotech
VitaDAO and the Gorbunova Lab are launching Matrix Bio, a cutting-edge research venture leveraging the anti-cancer and pro-longevity effects of high molecular weight hyaluronic acid from naked mole rats to humans.
BE Therapeutics - Brain Tissue Replacement
The neocortex, the part that underlies our highest cognitive functions and self-identity, can be replaced by progressively replacing tissue areas over time without significant disruption in function or self-identity. This offers the possibility of age reversal for the neocortex through progressive tissue replacement.
