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[John Schloendorn]

As most of you know, I have been offered the fortunate opportunity to do a research project that is in my opinion very promising for life-extension. In a nutshell, it is about developing cell therapies that are both complete (replace every cell of its target type) and sustainable (can be applied repeatedly without accumulating deleterious effects). Sadly, it turned out that government funding is difficult to obtain in time. It looks like we're facing at least a one-year funding gap from october. What sources of philanthropic and other funding do you know that could jump in? Both uni fees and the research budget would have to be provided, but maybe from different sources.

So far, I could think of:

- Ellison
- LEF (Although their research-page looks like it has not seen an admin for years)
- mprize (heh, maybe later ;-)

Do you have any others in mind?

I will be in the UK, and unfortunately some promising organizations fund US only. But feel free to post whoever you can think of, better say too much than too little!

[jwb1234567890]

Well there are two avenues to explore:
1) aging research grant
US
http://www.nia.nih.gov/ - its in the US but they are big and may fund research abroad
UK
http://research.help...rch/default.htm - uk based charity funds aging research.
http://www.bsra.org.uk/ - I don't think these people directly fund but I am sure they know everyone who does!
http://www.shef.ac.uk/ukncar/ - not sure about this one but might be a potential lead
http://www.shef.ac.uk/sisa/

EUROPE
http://www.esf.org/ - european science grants might be worth a shot
http://www.keele.ac....ta/european.htm - note the european commission funding of aging related proposals
http://www.eie.gr/in...ing-2004eng.htm - again note the european union funding

2) aging phenotype research grant e.g. cancer, heart disease. for this you would be the best judge of what other benefits there would be to your milestone one... I love to bang on about this but cancer seems a prime candidate. For these you generally have a wealth of opportunity.

all the research councils which get money from the uk gov
http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/ - the big daddy cancer research charity
http://www.icr.ac.uk/
http://www.wcrf-uk.org/


1) is a much smaller funding pool than 2) and at the end of the day all thats important is that the research gets done not what category it falls under;)

Jack

[John Schloendorn]

Many thanks Jack, for this putting this very cool info together. I'll sure spend some good evenings reading through this!

[april]

Hi John,

I have a grant for you.

Well, it's not mine to give out , but I think you should apply for it. They are UK and really, really want to fund research projects.

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/

They have a lot of different kinds of grants. Let me know what you think.

Yea!!! Our scientists at work!

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[John Schloendorn]

Heh, April, welcome to imminst ;-) And thanks for that one! It looks like wellcome's phd projects are all pre-defined, with fixed PIs that already get one of their major awards. I have asked my supervisor to bug them, though. And I'll get back to the one that is yours to give out... Thanks for the encouragement!