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Curating the world’s top longevity research

Preprints have revolutionised scientific publishing by enabling researchers to share their discoveries with the world immediately. However, the sheer volume of preprints being published on a daily basis results in an overwhelming landscape for those eager to keep up with the cutting edge of science.

This is where The Longevist steps in.

Supporting VitaDAO's mission to improve healthspan, we endeavour to spotlight the most groundbreaking longevity studies each quarter. Our editorial team utilises a combination of social listening tools, AI, and an expansive network to forge a shortlist of preprint contenders. Our expert panel of Longevist Curators then vote in a quarterly battle royale to establish the cream of the crop.

In addition to curation, The Longevist fosters a space for collaborative discourse, through our peer review platform - The Longevity Decentralised Review - to seamlessly blend expert insights with user-friendly, advanced technology. 

We invite you to join this vibrant community. Dive deep into the latest in longevity science and play a pivotal role in shaping the future narrative of this fascinating field.

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Curators

Andrea Maier
Andrea Maier

Professor of Medicine at National University of Singapore and VU Amsterdam, and founder of Chi Longevity. Her research is driven by her passion to unravel ageing mechanisms and the interaction of ageing and age-related syndromes and diseases, which eventually leads to counteracting interventions. Her research group particularly focuses on intervention studies testing geroprotectors to optimize health and bringing innovations into clinical practice.

Matthew Kaeberlein
Matthew Kaeberlein

Chief Science Officer at Optispan and Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, best known for his research on evolutionarily conserved mechanisms of aging. CEO and Chair of the American Aging Association. Co-Director of the Dog Aging Project.

Claudia Cavadas
Claudia Cavadas

Cláudia Cavadas is associate professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra and Group Leader of “Neuroendocrinology and Aging group” at Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra. Investigates the cellular and molecular mechanisms related to hypothalamic functions (feeding, circadian rhythm, sleep , life style) on the ageing process.

Ming Xu
Ming Xu

Assistant Professor at UConn Center on Aging and the Department of Genetics & Genome Sciences. Examining the role and underlying mechanism of senescent cells in various conditions in mammals, with the aim of finding new drugs to target senescent cells.

Mallar Bhattacharya
Mallar Bhattacharya

Attending ICU physician at UCSF Medical Center and directs a research laboratory at the Parnassus Heights campus. His lab focuses on lung injury and fibrosis, both major health problems for which effective therapies are limited, and is developing novel approaches to the study of cell-cell interactions in the lung--for example, between immune and structural cells.

Jenna Bartley
Jenna Bartley

Studies translational research into human aging with a focus on how immune responses and physical function decline as we get older. Her multidisciplinary research aims to uncover common pathways among the aging process and to develop potential interventions to prevent age-related declines in immune responses and help older adults maintain their independence into late life.

Charles Brenner
Charles Brenner

A major contributor in the field of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) metabolism, Brenner discovered the nicotinamide riboside kinase pathway to NAD and developed targeted, quantitative methods for NAD metabolomics. Brenner’s work has uncovered multiple diseases and conditions in which the NAD system comes under attack and in which provision of NR has the potential to improve repair and resiliency. His work has been successfully translated into consumer products, thereby creating and the NAD-boosting industry, and is the subject of over 50 registered clinical trials worldwide.

Marco Demaria
Marco Demaria

Group Leader of the Laboratory of Cellular Senescence and Age-related Pathologies at University of Groningen and the European Research Institute for the Biology of Aging (ERIBA). Interested to unravel molecular and cellular mechanisms involved during aging, age-related diseases and cancer, using different types of cellular and in vivo models. His goal is to identify new therapeutic approaches to build more efficient therapies to limit pathology and to extend healthspan.

Adam Freund
Adam Freund

Life sciences entrepreneur and executive with a Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology and 18 years of experience in research and drug development. Founder and CEO, Arda Therapeutics.

Bernadette Carroll
Bernadette Carroll

Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol. Interested in the mechanisms controlling the spatial regulation of nutrient homeostasis in health, senescence and cancer.

Michael Baran
Michael Baran

Michael Baran, MBA, PHD is Executive Director, WRDM and Partner at Pfizer Ventures. Mike is responsible for identifying, evaluating, making and managing equity investments aligned with the future directions of Pfizer.

Eleanor Sheekey
Eleanor Sheekey

Scientific communicator and content producer for YouTube channel "The Sheekey Science Show". PhD student at the Cancer Research UK - Cambridge Institute focusing on p53 & cellular senescence.

Matthew Yousefzadeh
Matthew Yousefzadeh

Instructor at Columbia University Medical Center where he works on mechanisms of aging, in particular how DNA damage and cellular senescence contribute to cell autonomous and non-autonomous aging.

Viktor Korolchuk
Viktor Korolchuk

Reader in Molecular Cell Biology at Newcastle University. Interested in basic cellular processes and pathways, in mechanisms of their regulation and in their relevance to pathophysiology of ageing. Currently working on nutrient response pathways focusing on mTOR and autophagy.

Clara Correia-Melo
Clara Correia-Melo

Junior Group Leader and Head of the Microbiome and Metabolism in Aging Lab at the Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute in Germany. Her research investigates the significance of the chemical crosstalk between cells, which plays a fundamental role in modulating cellular and tissue function.

Brad Stanfield
Brad Stanfield

Brad is a Primary Care Physician, practicing in Auckland, New Zealand. He has a deep passion for preventative medicine and helping people lead healthy, long lives. He created and hosts a YouTube channel that now has over 185,000 subscribers, which educates people on the latest clinical guidelines and research.

Shahaf Peleg
Shahaf Peleg

Independent group leader, Metabolism and epigenetics in aging, FBN (Rostock). Interested in the role of the metabolism - epigenetics connectivity during early ageing, response to stress and cognitive impairment. Aiming to pursue novel, preventive therapeutic avenues to increase a healthy human life span.

Graeme Hewitt
Graeme Hewitt

Cancer Research UK RadNet Junior Group Leader at King's College London's Comprehensive Cancer Centre. Research interests include genomic instability and its role in cancer and aging.

Dudley Lamming
Dudley Lamming

Faculty member of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism within the Department of Medicine. Dr. Lamming’s research focuses on understanding how nutrient-responsive signaling pathways can be harnessed to promote health and longevity.

Morten Scheibye-Knudsen
Morten Scheibye-Knudsen

Associate Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Copenhagen. His laboratory focuses on trying to understand the cellular and organismal consequences of DNA damage with the aim of developing interventions.

Joseph Burgoyne
Joseph Burgoyne

Senior Lecturer within the Cardiovascular Sciences Section, King's College London. Interested in redox biology, autophagy and epigenetics, with a focus on cardiovascular health.

David Vilchez
David Vilchez

Prof. David Vilchez’s laboratory is focused on defining the mechanisms underlying protein homeostasis (proteostasis) regulation in stem cells. The final goal is to determine whether intervention of these proteostasis mechanisms slow down aging and protect from the symptoms associated to age-related pathologies by using C. elegans as a model organism.

Barry Bentley
Barry Bentley

Head of the Bioengineering Research Group and Bio-AI Laboratory at Cardiff Metropolitan University. His current research focuses on the development of laboratory systems for cryopreservation, and the development of classification and staging systems for age-related pathology within the context of the WHO ICD-11.

Nicholas Tolwinski
Nicholas Tolwinski

Nicholas Tolwinski is an Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School and Yale-NUS College. His laboratory specialises in analysing signal transduction during development and aging in Drosophila. His research applies novel microscopy techniques to model how groups of cells organise into tissues. The laboratory’s primary focus is on Wnt signaling in development and aging.

David Meyer
David Meyer

David is a bioinformatician with a strong interest in genome instability and aging research. His research utilises data analysis, machine learning, and the development of computational tools to help advance our understanding of aging and age-related diseases.

Diogo Barardo
Diogo Barardo

Diogo is head of R&D at NOVOS. He authored the first paper of machine learning on predicting anti-aging compounds. He also created DrugAge, the world’s largest database of longevity-enhancing compounds.

Jan Gruber
Jan Gruber

Jan is an Associate Professor at Yale-NUS. His research aims to elucidate molecular mechanisms of ageing, in particular to understand the role of damage and mitochondria in ageing, to develop ageing clocks, and to test related intervention strategies against ageing and age-dependent diseases.

Julien Cherfils
Julien Cherfils

Group Leader at the Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice (IRCAN). His laboratory investigates cellular senescence and its interaction with the immune system in the context of aging and cancer with a specific focus on how senescence-specific cell surface molecules could modulate Natural Killer cell mediated immune surveillance.

Meet our team

Tim Peterson
Editor

Core contributor at VitaDAO. Co-founder of Bioio and Healthspan Technologies.

Rhys Anderson
Editor

Cell Biologist researching senescence and ageing at King's College London. Longevity Impetus Grant awardee. VitaDAO Contributor.

Maria Marinova
Editor

Apollo venture creation fellow. AthenaDAO core science. VitaDAO contributor

Max Unfried
Editor

Longevity Scientist & AI Engineer who is committed to enhancing humans and advancing civilization. VitaDAO core contributor.

Nina Patrick
Editor

Innovation Lead at the DTx Warehouse, a Champaulimaud Foundation project. VitaDAO contributor. Biotech Startup Advisor. Writer.

Alex Dobrin
Awareness Lead

Entrepreneur. Growth Hacker. Investor. Longevity advocate. VitaDAO Steward.

Schmackofant
Tech Lead

Interface designer and web developer with more than 15 years of experience in working on web applications.

Si Maclennan
Visual Communicator

Brand designer, DeSci & BioDAO specialist. VitaDAO contributor.

Frequently asked questions

What is The Longevist?

An overlay journal to select the most impactful longevity research every quarter.

Where do the preprints come from?

The Longevist specifically features longevity-focused preprints uploaded to servers such as bioRxiv, medRxiv, and arXiv.

How are The Longevist preprints chosen?

The Longlist - our editorial team compiles a longlist of longevity preprints throughout each annual quarter. We also accept and encourage preprint nominations from our readers, with $VITA prize bounties awarded for the best suggestions.

The Shortlist - at the end of each quarter, our editors whittle down the longlist to create a shortlist of 10 preprints.

The Longevist - our expert team of Longevist Curators vote “on-chain” on The Longevist Snapshot page by connecting their crypto wallet and selecting the preprints which they think are the most impactful. The entire shortlist of 10 preprints is then featured in an issue of the Longevist in rank order based on the number of Curator votes received, with the top 3 voted preprints awarded “Curators' Choice” status.

What are the preprint nomination bounties?

Nominate a preprint and we will award a prize of 200 $VITA for the referral which scores the highest in the Curators' vote for that quarter. Find out more about the VITA token here.

Who are The Longevist Editors?

A team of biology/longevity PhDs who are all active VitaDAO contributors. Meet us and the rest of the team just above this FAQs section.

Who are The Longevist Curators?

Our Curators are a mix of industry & academic experts in the longevity space, consisting of new group leaders to leading professors, communicators, and founders. We are always looking for new Curators - if you would like to nominate yourself or someone else, please get in touch! Curators are currently compensated with 500 $VITA per issue they vote on.

What does "on-chain" mean?

A blockchain is a distributed database or ledger shared among a computer network's nodes. We put both the curator vote and the preprint articles on the blockchain for transparency and permanence, as blockchains are significantly more open, robust and secure for information storage than centralized databases.

How can I stay up-to-date with The Longevist?

You can sign up to "Stay Updated" at the bottom right of The Longevist homepage. We are also active on Twitter @longevist_xyz.

Does being featured in The Longevist affect a preprint's ability to be published in a traditional journal?

No, we are not modifying the content from the original preprint. We are simply curating the best preprints each quarter to increase visibility on impactful research.

What classifies as a longevity preprint?

The Longevist promotes research which has the potential to have the largest impact on improving human healthspan and lifespan. Our definition includes research which tackles both the underlying causes of aging and age-related diseases.

What is TLDR?

The Longevity Decentralised Review (TLDR) is a VitaDAO initiative to provide compensation for peer reviews. We are currently offering a bounty of 50 $VITA for reviewing any of the preprints featured in The Longevist. Only those who have left a review, as well as authors of the preprint are permitted to see the reviews for that preprint.

What is Nodes?

Desci Nodes is a next-generation open-science solution for researchers who want to publish and manage manuscripts, data, code, and all other artefacts of research. With permission, the Longevist uploads preprints to Nodes, as it provides an on-chain mechanism that is open source and maintainable by decentralized, as opposed to closed source, networks.

What is VitaDAO?

VitaDAO is a community-owned collective dedicated to funding and advancing longevity science research that can improve people's lives. VitaDAO also supports numerous initiatives, including The Longevity Decentralized Review, The VitaDAO Longevity Fellowship and The Longevist.

More questions?

Please direct editorial enquiries to Tim Peterson or Rhys Anderson.