Brown University gets up to $22M federal grant to study slowing human aging itself

Posted by jared467 in Longevity & Anti-Aging - 1 points, 0 comments.

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-02-24/aging-research-arpa

Brown University just landed up to $22 million from ARPA-H to research treating aging as the actual target, not just individual diseases. The team, led by researcher John Sedivy, wants to find interventions that slow the normal aging process in healthy people, which is a pretty different framing than the usual "treat one disease at a time" model.

I like that they said the goal is aging itself, not a specific disease, but I want to stay cautious here. Anecdotally I have seen so many headlines over the last few years promising a big breakthrough, and then nothing really changes for regular people. Funding is good, and Brown is a serious institution, but slowing aging in humans is a very different thing than slowing it in mice.

Has anyone here been following ARPA-H's PROSPR program? I am curious if they are planning trials open to the public someday, or only working with lab models for now.

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