Collaboration between LT, Founders Forum and NUS combines clinical, biotech, investment and consumer longevity in large event format.
Premier longevity investment event Founders Longevity Forum today announced its next iteration will take place in the world’s leading location for healthy aging: Singapore.
The collaboration between the National University of Singapore, Founders Forum, and Longevity.Technology is the first of its kind – combining an exclusive investor conference with the NUS Academy for Healthy Longevity’s conference and education program.
The alliance will bring investors together with innovators, entrepreneurs and researchers spanning the fields of biotech, clinical, and consumer longevity, alongside a public event that promises to educate and showcase the latest developments available to consumers.
With dates provisionally expected to be February 27 – 28, 2025, click here to register your interest in participating in the event.
Following the outstanding success of the inaugural Founders Longevity Forum in London and NUS’ Unlock Healthy Longevity: Supplements conference, it’s easy to see why Singapore became the next location for this scaled-up conference series.
Faced with a rapidly aging and unhealthy population in the 1960s, the city-state has made a remarkable turnaround and today has a life expectancy of around 85 years, along with the best healthspan in the world. Couple that with the world’s lowest rate of cardiovascular mortality and best healthcare system and you can understand why many now refer to Singapore as the world’s sixth “Blue Zone.”
One of the key longevity initiatives driven by the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine is Singapore’s investment in geroscience research and geromedicine. To extend population-wide healthy longevity, aging biomarkers are being developed and longevity interventions to extend healthspan are being tested. Research initiatives are supplemented with high quality education provided by the NUS Academy for Healthy Longevity to prepare individuals at all levels to excel in these emerging fields.
Professor Andrea Maier, NUS Oon Chiew Seng Professor in Medicine announced the new event at this week’s ARDD 2024 conference in Copenhagen.
“It is extremely exciting to announce the collaboration between NUS Academy for Healthy Longevity, Founders Forum and Longevity.Technology,” she said. “Geroscience is paving the way for translation into healthy longevity medicine; the longevity field is growing at an unprecedented pace. Opportunities are arising for many industries, and public-private partnerships are being formed to accelerate the innovation and clinical implementation. Our event will bring the greatest thought-provoking leaders together to shape our immediate future.”
Carolyn Dawson, CEO of Founders Forum Group, explained that the mission of Founders Longevity Forum is to introduce the field’s most promising scientific, commercial, and investment opportunities to a growing investment community that is keen to support and drive new healthy aging innovations.
“After launching Founders Longevity Forum with fantastic results in London earlier this year, we’re excited to bring this community to Singapore in 2025, alongside Longevity.Technology and now in partnership with the National University of Singapore,” she added.
“Partnering with NUS enables us to grow this community on a global scale with NUS and Andrea Maier spearheading longevity innovation both in the region and internationally. We’re looking forward to expanding our key focus areas – biotechnology, clinics, diagnostics, and consumer longevity – through this partnership, and crucially, bringing more investment to longevity founders in Singapore and beyond.”
Phil Newman, editor in chief of Longevity.Technology, was bullish about the new event and what it means for the future of the series.
“This unique partnership between NUS, Founders Forum and Longevity.Technology really builds on what we started in London,” he said.
“As a world-leading longevity hub, Singapore really sets the tone for Founders Longevity Forum going forward. Our goal is to scale longevity awareness globally, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.”
Register your interest to participate at Founders Longevity Forum Singapore.
