About LERI
Life extension research.
A collective effort.
Life Extension Research Institute brings people and ideas together around one ambitious question: how can we better understand and intervene in aging?
Our purpose
Build connections
that advance understanding.
Progress begins with a good question, but often needs expertise that no single researcher has. A computer scientist may need help interpreting a biological dataset. A biomedical researcher may need a better analytical method. An independent researcher may need a place to discuss a carefully developed idea.
LERI is forming an international associate group to make these connections easier. Our aim is to share research results, explain complex work across disciplinary boundaries, and create opportunities for collaboration.
We are interested in longer life with better health and function. That ambition calls for curiosity, careful evidence, and a willingness to revise an idea when the results demand it.
How we want to work
Open to independent minds
Institutional affiliation is not the only path to a valuable contribution. We invite independent researchers to introduce their expertise, questions, and work.
Clear about evidence
Distinguish a hypothesis from a finding, and an animal experiment from a human trial. A clear limitation makes an article more useful, not less ambitious.
Focused on exchange
Articles should give another researcher something to examine: a method, a result, a well-referenced interpretation, or a specific question.
From ambition to action
What we do.
What you can do.
We are building a research community, starting with conversation and contribution.
This website introduces our mission, provides research guides, and invites prospective associates to contact LERI. The guides explain selected published work; they are not announcements of discoveries made by LERI.
You can help by proposing an article, sharing your research interests, and identifying a collaboration you would like to explore. If your question spans biology, computer science, AI, or medical research, that is a reason to start a conversation.
Meet the associate criteria ↗A global invitation