About Us

The SENS Foundation Academic Initiative has a threefold purpose:

To develop students into the next generation of researchers working on rejuvenation biotechnologies by providing them with funding, guidance, and mentoring.

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To empower students to be advocates of SENS Foundation and the Academic Initiative by providing them with outreach materials and training.

See our student outreach projects

To educate students and interested laypeople about the feasibility of the defeat of aging by providing instruction about aging as the reversible accumulation of damage at the cellular and molecular level.

See our coursework

Updates

  • Announcing New Summer Internships
    Daniel Kimbel on January 31, 2012 in Academic Initiative

    In the summer of 2012, the Academic Initiative will bring as many as three interns to the SENS Foundation Research Center in Mountain View, California to participate in SENS research for three months. These interns will receive monthly stipends and, if they are not local to the San Francisco Bay Area, a credit towards airfare.

  • Welcome to the Academic Initiative's New Site
    Daniel Kimbel on January 3, 2012 in Academic Initiative

    Welcome to the SENS Foundation Academic Initiative’s new website. In addition to containing more comprehensive information about the Initiative and what it does, this site offers a number of new features, including a listing of outreach projects and a searchable database of member profiles. The site leaves plenty of room for the Initiative to grow into, thanks to its new committee pages, its new media section, and its more streamlined navigation.

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Get Involved

If you would like to join the Academic Initiative as a member (a student, mentor, or supporting professor) or as a volunteer, you can find the information you need below.

About applying to the Academic Initiative

Students can apply for a materials grant to help fund an aging- or rejuvenation-related lab project, even before joining the Initiative.

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Your donation can make student research projects happen through a materials grant, or can reward our best students in the form of a scholarly award. It can also help us create quality online coursework, or produce more outreach materials. Finally, we can use your donation to market the Academic Initiative to a larger audience.

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