Scientists
While considerable resources are spent on studying diseases such as Alzheimer's or cancer, only minimal resources are available for research into the aging process. This is a mistake and must be changed, since aging itself is the main risk factor for many of these diseases.
Dr. habil. Axel Kowald
Biochemist and systems biologist, senior researcher at the University of Rostock
For the first time in history, we are on the verge of winning the war against aging, our oldest enemy. But this requires the broad population to actively demand it, too.
Dr. Aubrey de Grey
Biogerontologist, President of the LEV Foundation, founder of Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), co-founder of the Methuselah Foundation and SENS Research Foundation, member of the Gerontological Society of America and American Aging Association
Aging is the number one risk factor for many chronic diseases, and an estimated 785 million men and women of working age are unable to work due to chronic illness or injury. After decades of basic research and recent scientific breakthroughs, approaches of regenerative medicine are promising for enabling the prevention, treatment and cure of some of the most devastating age-associated diseases - for example Parkinson's, diabetes and heart disease.
Boris Schmalz
Physician and stem cell researcher
Age-related diseases are playing an ever greater role in our society. It is time not only to provide more resources for research into and therapy of the individual diseases, but also to bring the underlying process into focus and to combat it - aging itself.
Dr. Thorsten Schächinger
Biologist
Aging is one of the oldest biological enigmas and a major biomedical problem of the 21st century.
Dr. Daniel Wuttke
Biogerontologist
Entrepreneurs
Aging is a syndromic disease that we will defeat in this century.
Ulrich Kaiser
Vice President of the Thai-European Business Association (TEBA)
A drastic extension of the healthy lifespan is beneficial both for the individual and for society. It promises to strengthen our humanity, improve our resilience, deepen our respect for the environment we share, and foster a culture of caring for ourselves and others. To achieve this goal, we need existing as well as new research approaches. Rejuvenation research must be funded by both public and private organizations and must create solutions that are accessible worldwide to everyone on equal terms.
Didier Coeurnelle
Co-Chair of HEALES (Healthy Life Extension Society), advisor to Democracy Without Borders
Biomedical rejuvenation therapies are within reach and would significantly improve the quality of life of billions of people around the world. Raising the level of research in this field is a profoundly humanitarian cause.
David Wood
Chair of London Futurists, pioneer of the smartphone industry, co-founder of Symbian, member of the Royal Society of Arts