Breaking Down Longevity Roadblocks with Longevity Prize! Apply for Science Funding
Channel: Lifespan News
Date: 2022-08-11

The Longevity Prize has officially launched! This crowdsourced prize, or more accurately, a series of prizes, seeks to accelerate progress in longevity research through financial incentives for proposals, experiments, and collaborations. It is a new, largely decentralized, take on scientific prizes, bringing together elements of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding that enable the community to help guide the prize.

Made possible by VitaDAO, the Foresight Institute, the Methuselah Foundation, and Lifespan.io, the Longevity Prize was inspired in part by the Methuselah Mouse Prize, which launched in 2003 with the goal of stimulating advancements in new life extension therapies. The Methuselah Mouse Prize was often compared to XPRIZE, and XPRIZE itself was inspired by another prize, the Orteig Prize, which was won way back in 1927 by Charles Lindbergh when he flew nonstop from New York City to Paris.

This new prize seeks to build on the success of previous prizes, and it officially kicked off with a virtual opening ceremony on August 2..

While the official launch was recent, the prize has been in development for a while. It received $180 thousand dollars in funding from donors, including matching donors such as Vitalik Buterin, during Gitcoin Grants Round 12 in December of 2021

In addition to being funded by the community, prizes are created by it as well. Ideas for prizes are shared in the VitaDAO Discord server, in a collaborative Google Doc, and during in person events such as one that the Foresight Institute organized in San Francisco in May, and another during LessDeath’s Longevity Summer Camp.

The initial prize that is currently underway is the Hypothesis Prize, which is awarding $20,000, in addition to smaller amounts for other winners, for ideas about promising but underappreciated areas of longevity science that should be pursued.

The organizers point out that there are decades of scientific work - including work published in foreign languages - that is largely overlooked and ignored, and that this trove of information can be mined for actionable insights and ideas that can be applied to longevity science. They mention the specific example of heterochronic parabiosis, which was experimented with well over a century ago and is now a popular area of rejuvenation research.

The Longevity Prize is actively seeking submissions, and the application process is extremely simple. Anyone can submit, and all you need to do is craft 1-3 pages worth of text explaining the area of study that you think is undervalued, generate a hypothesis for making progress, and propose an experiment to further investigate this approach.

Submissions will be reviewed by a team of judges, and may be eligible for follow-on funding or additional community support. Applications for this first round of prizes close at the end of 2022 - so get started now, and let’s work together to advance longevity science for the benefit of everyone. Learn more, submit, or donate at longevityprize.com.

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LSN: Gitcoin Grants - https://youtu.be/T3iP18Sm_14
LSN: LessDeath Longevity Summer Camp - https://youtu.be/-xCA4g7SgVI

The Longevity Prize Announcement - https://youtu.be/ifMeNOC33BA

Ideas for Prizes Google Doc - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CckNVC3gRgksM48cLwUi-r9p2ZNKSCeIpzIw9wM9lvA/edit?usp=sharing

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexzhavoronkov/2022/06/05/a-weekend-by-foresight-institutea-community-for-future-technologies/
https://www.mfoundation.org/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/525865
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4072458/
https://foresight.org/biotech-workshop/
https://gitcoin.co/grants/4083/longevity-prize-by-vitadao
https://www.herox.com/xprize
https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/1243284318987878401

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