Life Extension Foundation

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The Life Extension Foundation is a membership organization that informs people about the latest advances in the life extension sciences, sells dietary supplements, and funds life extension research by offering grants to scientists in universities and by supporting startup biotech companies. It was founded in 1980 by Saul Kent.

The companies being funded by the Life Extension Foundation include: Twenty-First Century Medicine, which conducts research to cryopreserve organs for transplant and to perfect human suspended animation; Critical Care Research, which conducts hypothermia and resuscitation research; BioMarker Pharmaceuticals, which conducts research to determine the genes involved in aging, with the aim of developing therapies to reverse the aging process; and Suspended Animation, which conducts research to develop advanced systems to improve the practice of human cryopreservation.