Significant new insights into what enables an especially long as well as healthy lifespan are expected from a multi-year project launched in June 2022 by AFAR and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in collaboration with the Boston University College of Medicine.
Dubbed the SuperAgers Initiative, this pathbreaking effort will begin by enlisting the help of 10,000 people 95 and older along with their family members – the largest group ever assembled to explore the biological and genetic underpinnings of exceptional longevity.
The findings should help advance the ultimate goal of the growing scientific community focused on geroscience: Developing new therapies that target the aging processes and potentially address multiple age-related diseases and conditions at the same time.
AFAR is grateful to James Fickel and the Fickel Family Foundation for their generous support of the SuperAgers Initiative and contributions to this critical research in advancing exceptional longevity.
Learn more about the SuperAgers Initiative here.
Read a related press release on the initiative’s launch here.
