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.

See our student research projects

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

  • Summer Internship Decisions Made
    Daniel Kimbel on May 3, 2012 in Academic Initiative

    The SENS Foundation's researchers have reached their decisions, and all of the applicants to the SENS Foundation Academic Initiative's 2012 summer internship program have been informed of their status. We're excited to be able to bring some interns to the SENSF-RC this summer, but regret that we could not accept nearly all of the qualified applicants who expressed interest in our program. This will be the internship program's first year, but we're optimistic that the program will be repeated in subsequent years.

  • Call for Volunteers
    Daniel Kimbel on March 30, 2012 in Academic Initiative

    Over the last few months, the SENS Foundation Academic Initiative has witnessed a rapid increase in its membership numbers, and in the interest it receives from students across the United States and the world. In order to properly utilize and expand upon this interest, the Initiative will need new volunteers, new ideas, and new projects.

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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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