Tripartite American British Israeli Longevity Initiative (TABILI) and Longevity Nation conference, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
(Initiated in February 2024 – an original proposition by Vetek Association, that can be modified depending on interested parties, and even interested countries, in addition to the US, UK and Israel)
Goal: Enhancing the US-UK-Israel cooperation to promote research, development and education for healthy longevity and preventing aging-related diseases
Background:
Due to the rapid aging of the global population and the derivative increase in aging-related non-communicable diseases and their economic burden, there is a growing understanding of the urgent need to promote biomedical research, development and education on aging as an underlying factor of aging-related diseases and apply this knowledge to create therapeutic and preventive solutions, in order to improve healthy and productive longevity for the people. There is also an increasing understanding that the aging challenge cannot be handled by any individual country alone, but only in cooperation.
The US, UK and Israel are long-standing natural allies to create such a successful world-leading cooperation, to address the urgent aging challenges, not only in these countries, but globally. This cooperation builds on decades of world-impacting joined research, development and education. For this cooperation, the US, UK and Israel can offer their long and strong traditions of cooperative scientific and technological achievements and innovation, the strong supportive infrastructure, the close historical, cultural and communal connections (in particular with regard to the Jewish communities and communities supportive of the cooperation between the US, UK and Israel), and the highly skilled and creative scientific and medical human capital, including diverse branches of biomedical research, development and education on aging and aging-related diseases. The joining of forces between the US, UK and Israel can create synergies with unprecedented capabilities to advance healthy longevity in these countries and globally.
There are precedents for such cooperation. Thus, in order to jointly address the aging challenge by enhancing biomedical research, there was established the Britain Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership on Ageing – BIRAX Ageing in 2018, supported by both the UK and Israeli governments, and co-sponsored by philanthropies. This is arguably one of the first times in the world that a government and philanthropically sponsored R&D program is entirely “Geroscience-oriented” – that is to say, it presupposes that the aging process is the underlying cause of age-related diseases, and seeks diagnostics and therapeutic interventions into the aging process as the effective way to prevent or mitigate multiple aging-related diseases (multi-morbidities and frailties) and extend healthy life. Furthermore, there was a plan to create a collaborative aging R&D support program between the US and Israel, in the framework of the United States-Israel Cooperation Enhancement and Regional Security bill of 2019.
We aim to build on this tradition of excellence and cooperation, and establish a massive collaborative support program for biomedical aging and longevity research, development and education between the US, UK and Israel – the Tripartite American British Israeli Longevity Initiative (TABILI).
Objectives:
Specifically, we propose to advance cooperation between the US, UK and Israel in selecting and recruiting tri-national support, including exchange programs, funding and incentives, for the promising and effective diagnostic and therapeutic R&D approaches to aging and aging-related diseases that could be jointly advanced by the three countries. The collaborative support can range from specific R&D projects to establishing tri-national R&D, funding, training and knowledge exchange frameworks, including competitive tender-based as well as goal-oriented programs, cooperative hubs and centers of excellence. From the earlier experience, the creation of goal-oriented programs as well as competitive calls for research proposals can be a convenient and effective way to massively increase involvement in research, development and education on the subject in the three countries, provided sufficient funding.
Specific objectives:
- Holding top-level international conferences on aging and healthy longevity research, development and education, and accompanying meetings, workshops and exchanges.
- Establishing and managing joined calls for research proposals on aging and healthy longevity between institutional researchers in the US, UK and Israel.
- Creating a distributed knowledge center/research institute or think tank dedicated to connecting key stakeholders, performing data analysis, creating and promoting educational programs and policy recommendations, for the advancement of healthy longevity research, development and education in the US, UK and Israel.
- Creating a research, development and commercialization facility on healthy longevity in Israel (such as biotechnological incubator or accelerator), to leverage unique cooperative medical and technological capabilities and investments to advance the healthy longevity industry ecosystem in Israel and in the Middle East, in cooperation with the US and UK.
Longevity Nation conference:
We ask for your support of this initiative. In particular, we would like to extend our invitation to you to participate in and support the conference series entitled “Longevity Nation – Enhancing Research, Development and Education for Healthy Longevity” that commonly takes place in Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, on October 28-31, 2024, that discusses and advances this cooperation.
http://www.longevitynation.org/
https://www.longevityisrael.org/donate/
Original Initiators of the Tripartite American British Israeli Longevity Initiative (TABILI)
(The participants can be modified according to interested parties, even interested countries, in addition to the US, UK and Israel)
Vetek (Seniority) Association – the Movement for Longevity and Quality of Life, Israel
American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), US
Medical Research Council (MRC) – Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Ageing Networks, UK