More Than $7.7 Million Awarded
WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), together with eight global collaborators representing over 50 countries and territories, today announced the awardees of the 2021 Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards. These awards are part of theHealthy Longevity Global Competition这是一项多年，多阶段和数百万美元的国际竞争，寻求潜在的突破性创新，旨在扩大人类健康和生活的运作。
在2021年催化剂奖的周期中，世界各地的创新者提交了1,000多个申请。催化剂阶段呼吁来自任何背景的团队和个人（从科学，医学和健康到技术，金融，社会科学及其他地区）提交创新思想，以扩展人类健康范围。应用主要根据新颖性和创新来判断。
NAM在全球合作者网络之间建立了竞争和协调，每个人都在各自的国家或地区管理竞争。In parallel, the NAM also administers a U.S.-based Catalyst Award competition, for which approximately 500 innovators submitted applications in 2021. The following 25 submissions received Catalyst Awards from the NAM (principal investigators for each are listed) and were announced today at the NAM’s inaugural Global Innovator Summit. Each awardee will receive $50,000 USD as seed funding to help advance their ideas:
- Advancing Cardiovascular Monitoring: Long-Term, Accessible, Multi-Modal Soft Bioelectronics
Philip Tan, doctoral student, the University of Texas at Austin - The Aging Exposome: Characterizing Bidirectional Effects of Exposures and Aging
Ram Gouripeddi, assistant professor, University of Utah - Automatically Refocusing Reading Glasses
Robert Konrad, CEO, Zinn Labs - Combating Arterial Aging by Engineering the Gut Virome to Transmit Equol Producing Genes
Justyn Jaworski, assistant professor of bioengineering, the University of Texas at Arlington - Community Brain Health in African American Faith-Based Organizations
Dean Sherzai, co-director, Healthy Minds Initiative - 百岁老人的抗病性和寿命的解密机制
George Murphy, associate professor of medicine and co-director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), Boston University - Defining Drivers of Ovarian Aging to Balance the Scales toward Healthy Longevity
Jennifer Garrison, assistant professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging - 延迟更年期并使用穆勒尼亚抑制物质增加生殖寿命
David Pepin, assistant professor, Massachusetts General Hospital - 设计与衰老有关的疼痛的基于音乐的干预措施：使用交互式移动技术来改善身体和心理成果的身体运动
Elizabeth Murnane, assistant professor of engineering, Dartmouth College - Dynamic Signature of Cuffless Blood Pressure and Risk of Subclinical Brain Disease and Dementia
Yuan Ma, postdoctoral research fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - Enabling Healthy Longevity by Investigating the Aging Extracellular Environment
XI Ren，卡内基·梅隆大学助理教授 - Human Activity Recognition to Avoid Fall Related Injuries in the Older Adult Population
Rebecca Tarbert, director of clinical programs, ActiveProtective Technologies, Inc. - Identifying Predictive Biomarkers of Effective Immunity in Aging Populations
Wayne Koff, president and CEO, Human Vaccines Project - Joy for People Living with Dementia Using a Virtual Assistant
Lisa Fournier, project coordinator, University of Southern Indiana - 具有个性化AI和多模式的多模式的多传感器可穿戴系统，以提高家中老年人的平衡
史蒂文斯理工学院助理教授Alparslan Emrah Bayrak - A New State-wide Tele-health Model to Deliver ADRD Tele-assessment and Tailored Care Planning to Older Adults in Low-Access, High-Risk Rural Communities
佐治亚大学副教授Jenay Beer - A Novel Treatment for Age-Induced Loss of Muscle Strength (Frailty)
Stephen Meriney, professor, University of Pittsburgh - 识别协同寿命干预措施的平台
George Sutphin, assistant professor, University of Arizona - Repurposing the Lightbulb to Support Healthy Ageing
Daniel Joyce, postdoctoral scholar, University of Nevada, Reno - The Role of Mitochondrial in Stem Cell Transplantation and Repair
加利福尼亚大学尔湾分校干细胞研究中心的博士后研究员Atena Zahedi - 西罗莫司在延迟衰老和与年龄有关的疾病中的作用
Irina Timofte, MD, University of Maryland - Toward Safe and Independent Senior Mobility: Development of a Supportive Tool to Self-Assess Driving Performance
Kate Hyun, assistant professor, the University of Texas at Arlington - Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Enhanced Glymphatic-Based Delivery of Antibodies for Brain Imaging and Therapy
Muna Aryal, research associate, the University of Texas at Austin - Transformative Oral Drugs that Reverse Muscle Weakness and Aging in Older Adults
Stan Watowich, CEO and founder, Ridgeline Therapeutics - Unraveling the Mycobiome: Fungi as a Novel Class of Probiotics to Target Inflammaging
Eric Schott, co-founder and vice president of Translational Research and Operations, Solarea Bio Inc.
“I am pleased to see this global competition advance and welcome a new cohort of scientists, innovators, and entrepreneurs for their ambitious work to extend the human healthspan. This diverse and cross-disciplinary group is helping improve the physical, mental, and social well-being of people as they age,” said National Academy of Medicine President Victor J. Dzau. “We look forward to continuing our support of new researchers to the field of longevity and stimulating breakthroughs that will impact the lives of generations to come.”
今天发布催化剂奖的其他组织包括台湾的西尼卡学术界；中国医学科学院；香港中学大学和香港大学；欧盟的健康状况；日本医学研发机构；卫生部和新加坡国家研究基金会；国家智利研究与开发机构；以及英国的研究与创新。作为竞争的一部分，不仅通过奖励创新的想法，而且与世界分享这些想法，共享知识和刺激整个领域的承诺的一部分，所有授予的想法的摘要都可以在www.healthylongevitychallenge.org。
As Catalyst Awardees and finalists make progress on their work, they become eligible for support in the second phase of the competition, the Accelerator Phase. The three global Accelerator sponsors — Johnson and Johnson Innovation LLC, Eisai, Co., and the kENUP Foundation on behalf of the European Investment Bank — all lead their own competition and awards.
Johnson and Johnson Innovation is the first sponsor to administer Accelerator Awards through the launch of the NAM Healthy Longevity QuickFire Challenge. Four awardees of the first NAM Healthy Longevity QuickFire Challenge were announced during the inaugural Global Innovator Summit (principal investigators for each are listed). They will receive a total of up to $750,000 USD and mentorship from experts at the Johnson and Johnson Family of Companies to further help advance their Catalyst Award-winning work:
- Boston Children's Hospital
波士顿儿童医院的小组旨在通过将异常长寿物种的基因组签名与长寿人相交，以确定可行的目标，以延长寿命。 - Byteflies
Byteflies is creating a hematology-oncology-specific digital health solution with the potential to objectively track disease progression and detect treatment adverse effects such as neurotoxicity and inflammation at an early stage. - Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
The Hamamatsu University School of Medicine team aims to develop an innovative transdermal therapy of Alzheimer’s disease with a new brain-derived peptide. - 同步
With a proprietary intelligent AI-driven sensor and a VR platform, SYNCSENSE aims to transform exercise equipment into engaging and adaptive exergaming experiences that prevents and treats diseases related to physical inactivity and aging.
随后的竞争赞助商Eisai Co.和欧洲投资银行与Kenup Foundation合作的随后的加速器获奖者将来将来宣布。Johnson和Johnson Innovation LLC还将宣布2022年和2023年NAM Catalyst奖奖奖的其他Qu乐动体育为什么赞助西甲ickfire挑战。
所有2021名获奖者将被邀请参加2022年秋季在华盛顿特区举行的年度创新峰会，以与全球各地的政策制定者，研究人员，潜在的投资者和其他创新者分享他们的工作。催化剂阶段的下一个周期将于2022年1月开放，将接受大约六周。经过多步审查过程之后，获奖者将于2022年秋季宣布。
The final phase of the global competition, the Grand Prize, will award one or more prizes of up to $5 million USD for a breakthrough innovation aiming to extend healthspan. Learn more about the NAM’s Global Grand Challenge Competitionhere。
健康长寿的全球竞争support from Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC; John and Valerie Rowe; Martine Rothblatt and United Therapeutics Corp.; Anthony J. Yun and Kimberly A. Bazar; the John A. Hartford Foundation; and the Bia-Echo Foundation, in addition to commitments from the global collaborator (Catalyst Phase) and Accelerator Phase sponsor organizations.
The国家医学院, established in 1970 as the Institute of Medicine, is an independent organization of eminent professionals from diverse fields including health and medicine; the natural, social, and behavioral sciences; and beyond. It serves alongside the国家科学院and theNational Academy of Engineering作为国家和国际社会的顾问。通过其国内和全球举措，NAM致力于解决健康，医学和相关政策中的关键问题，并激发各个部门的积极行动。NAM与其同伴学院和其他部门紧密合作国家科学，工程和医学学院。
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