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, a multiyear, multistage, and multimillion-dollar international competition seeking potential breakthrough innovations aiming to extend human health and function later in life.
In the 2021 cycle of the Catalyst Awards, innovators around the world submitted more than 1,000 applications. The Catalyst Phase calls on teams and individuals from any background — from science, medicine, and health to technology, finance, social sciences, and beyond — to submit innovative ideas with the goal of extending the human healthspan. Applications are judged primarily on novelty and innovation.
The NAM founded the competition and coordinates among a network of global collaborators, each administering a competition in their respective country or region. 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:
- 推进心血管监测：长期，可访问，多模态软生物电化
Philip Tan, doctoral student, the University of Texas at Austin - 老化曝光：表征暴露和老化的双向效应
Ram Gouripeddi, assistant professor, University of Utah - Automatically Refocusing Reading Glasses
Robert Konrad，Zinn Labs首席执行官 - 通过工程肠道生物体进行动脉衰老以传播equol生产基因
助理公关Justyn Jaworski律师事务所ofessor of bioengineering, the University of Texas at Arlington - Community Brain Health in African American Faith-Based Organizations
Dean Sherzai, co-director, Healthy Minds Initiative - Deciphering Mechanisms of Disease Resistance and Longevity in Centenarians
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 - Delaying Menopause and Increasing Reproductive Longevity with Mullerian Inhibiting Substance
David Pepin, assistant professor, Massachusetts General Hospital - Designing Music-Based Interventions for Aging-Related Pain: Sonifying Body Movement Using Interactive Mobile Technology to Improve Physical and Psychological Outcomes
Elizabeth Murnane, assistant professor of engineering, Dartmouth College - 诱拐血压的动态签名和亚临床脑病风险和痴呆症
元马，博士后研究员，哈佛。陈公共卫生学院 - 通过调查老化的细胞外环境来实现健康的寿命
Xi Ren, assistant professor, Carnegie Mellon University - Human Activity Recognition to Avoid Fall Related Injuries in the Older Adult Population
Rebecca Tarbert，临床计划主任，ActiveProtective Technologies，Inc。 - Identifying Predictive Biomarkers of Effective Immunity in Aging Populations
Wayne Koff，总裁兼首席执行官，人类疫苗项目 - Joy for People Living with Dementia Using a Virtual Assistant
Lisa Fournier, project coordinator, University of Southern Indiana - A Multi-Sensor Wearable System with a Personalized AI and Multimodal Biofeedback to Improve Balance of Older Adults at Home
Alparslan Emrah Bayrak, Assistant Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology - 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
Jenay Beer, associate professor, University of Georgia - 年龄诱导的肌肉力量丧失的新型治疗（脆弱）
斯蒂芬·梅里梅，匹兹堡大学教授 - A Platform for Identifying Synergistic Longevity Interventions
乔治·斯图尔芬，亚利桑那大学助理教授 - Repurposing the Lightbulb to Support Healthy Ageing
丹尼尔乔斯，博士后学者，内华达大学，里诺 - 线粒体在干细胞移植和修复中的作用
Atena Zahedi, postdoctoral fellow, Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine - The Role of Sirolimus in Delaying Aging and Age-Related Diseases
马里兰大学MD伊琳娜Timofte - 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 - 经颅上聚焦超声用于增强基于Glympheratic的血浆抗体递送，用于脑成像和治疗
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 - 解开霉菌：真菌作为一种针对炎症的小型益生菌类
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.”
Other organizations that issued Catalyst Awards today include Academia Sinica of Taiwan; Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong; EIT Health of the European Union; Agency for Medical Research and Development of Japan; Ministry of Health and National Research Foundation of Singapore; National Agency for Research and Development of Chile; and UK Research and Innovation. As part of the competition’s commitment to share knowledge and stimulate an entire field by not only rewarding innovative ideas but also sharing those ideas with the world, summaries of all awarded ideas are available atwww.healthylongevitychallenge.org.
作为催化剂获奖者和决赛者在其工作方面取得进展，他们有资格在竞争的第二阶段支持加速阶段。三个全球加速度赞助商 - 约翰逊和约翰逊创新LLC，Eisai，Co.和Kenup基金会代表欧洲投资银行 - 所有人都会引领自己的竞争和奖项。
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
The team at Boston Children’s Hospital aims to identify actionable targets to extend longevity by intersecting genomic signatures in exceptionally long-lived species with those of long-lived humans. - 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. - 滨松大学医学院
Hamamatsu大学医学院旨在通过新的脑衍生的肽开发阿尔茨海默病的创新透皮治疗。 - SYNCSENSE
通过专有的智能AI驱动的传感器和VR平台，SyncSense旨在将运动设备变换为接触和适应性的外交经验，可防止和治疗与身体不活动和衰老有关的疾病。
Subsequent cohorts of Accelerator Awardees from competition sponsors Eisai Co., and the European Investment Bank, in partnership with kENUP Foundation, will be announced in the future. Johnson and Johnson Innovation LLC will also announce additional QuickFire Challenges exclusive to the NAM Catalyst Award awardees in 2022 and 2023.
All 2021 awardees will be invited to attend the annual Innovator Summit in Washington, D.C., in fall 2022 to share their work with policymakers, researchers, potential investors, and fellow innovators from around the world. The next cycle of the Catalyst Phase opens in January 2022, and applications will be accepted for approximately six weeks. After a multistep review process, awardees will be announced in fall 2022.
全球比赛的最后阶段，大奖，将奖励一个或多个奖项高达500万美元，以旨在扩大卫生钢的突破性创新。了解有关NAM的全球大挑战比赛的更多信息这里.
健康的长寿全球竞争得到了约翰逊和约翰逊创新的支持;ld乐动约翰和瓦莱里罗;Martine Rothblatt和United Therapeutics Corp。Anthony J. Yun和Kimberly A. Bazar;John A. Hartford基金会;除了来自全球合作者（催化剂阶段）和加速阶段赞助组织的承诺之外，除了承诺之外的BIA-Echo基金会。
TheNational Academy of Medicine, 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国家科学院和the国家工程学院as an adviser to the nation and the international community. Through its domestic and global initiatives, the NAM works to address critical issues in health, medicine, and related policy and inspire positive action across sectors. The NAM collaborates closely with its peer academies and other divisions within theNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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