Sau­di an­ti-ag­ing group links up with AFAR to dole out re­search grants; US cannabis biotech se­cures UK part­ner

A Riyadh-linked non-prof­it group fo­cused on an­ti-ag­ing put out word Wednes­day that it would be hand­ing out $8.5 mil­lion to help fur­ther re­search in­to con­quer­ing ag­ing.

Hevo­lu­tion Foun­da­tion teamed up with the Amer­i­can Fed­er­a­tion for Ag­ing Re­search (AFAR) to an­nounce up to 18 three-year grants of $375,000. The two or­ga­ni­za­tions said that the grants would be used to sup­port re­search in ag­ing bi­ol­o­gy and gero­science, a new­er re­search fo­cus on the bi­ol­o­gy of age-re­lat­ed dis­eases. On top of that, the foun­da­tion is putting to­geth­er a con­fer­ence fund that AFAR will man­age to sup­port con­fer­ences and sci­en­tif­ic meet­ings.

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