‘We need to cut through the noise in longevity’

Phaedon Institute aims to bring focus back on key areas within longevity – starting with cellular senescence.

A new longevity non-profit organization emerged from stealth today with the goal of enabling effective and sustainable growth in the longevity industry. The Phaedon Institute brings together top minds from across the field of aging science, promoting synergy, cooperation, and discussion to support the development of rigorous standards and guidance for the field.

The first area of focus for the new institute is the development of treatments that target cellular senescence (when cells stop dividing, produce pathogenic factors, and accumulate in the body as we age) – and it will host a senotherapeutics summit at the Buck Institute later this year.

My take on this: The Phaedon Institute says it aims to distill the science, support the leaders and talents, define the regulatory environment, and identify the investment opportunities to transform the aging and longevity industry. But it’s not the only non-profit with a longevity agenda, so how does the institute set itself apart? We caught up with Phaedon co-founder and president, Dr Marco Quarta to find out.

While Quarta acknowledges that there are other organizations looking to improve various aspects of longevity science and commercialization, he says one of the key differences in Phaedon’s approach is to move away from treating longevity as a monolith.

“In recent years, more and more has been added to this big melting pot of longevity science and therapeutics, and there is now a lot of background noise,” says Quarta. “Everything is mixed together, and it is becoming hard to follow what’s really happening and what’s relevant. There are many longevity events, for example, with people from many different fields talking, but, as a result, they end up going too wide and not deep enough.”

Learn more about Phaedon Institute straight from Dr Marco Quarta, HERE.

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