Impetus Longevity Grants 2021

Impetus Grants provides funding for scientists to start working on what they consider the most important problems in aging biology, without delay.
-Such work should not be held up by red tape.
-Grants of upfrom 10k to $500k + 10% Overheads. With decisions made within 3 weeks.
Our goal is to have a broad impact on the field, by supporting projects that challenge assumptions, develop new tools and methodologies, discover new ways to reverse aging processes, and/or synthesize isolated manifestations of aging into a systemic perspective.
Projects with the main focus on ideas that advance the practical application of longevity research but are unlikely to get funded through traditional grants.
With significant risk of failure, and proposals to build infrastructure that would accelerate the field but do not in themselves generate new discoveries.
Main Topics:
1) Development and/or validation of interpretable, mechanistic biomarkers that predict age-related outcomes in humans and animals and respond to interventions.
2) Development and application of assays to measure causal and temporal relationships between different mechanisms of aging in cells and organs.
3) Improving translation of preclinical findings, e.g. through better/more accessible animal models, or by testing the context-dependence of known aging modulators.
Also applications unrelated to these topics.