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The Biogerontology Research Foundation (BGRF) is a registered UK charity which has been constituted to support the application of knowledge of the mechanisms of ageing to relieve  disability, suffering and disease in old age. The formal aims of the charity are firstly to relieve sickness and preserve, protect and advance all or any aspects of the health of elderly persons. Secondly the BGRF aims to advance the education of the public in the emerging field of biogerontology

Mission

The mission of the BGRF states that it is to use the power of science to alleviate suffering in the elderly, the charity aims to achieve this by: Funding research to develop interventions which remediate the molecular damage underlying the diseases of aging encouraging graduates to specialise in areas of biogerontology encouraging the publication of research findings securing intellectual property for public benefit encouraging collaboration between researchers in multidisciplinary fields

The Biogerontology Research Foundation seeks to fill a gap within the research community, whereby it feels the current scientific understanding of the ageing process is not yet being sufficiently exploited to produce effective medical interventions. The BGRF will fund research which, building on the body of knowledge about how ageing happens, will develop biotechnological interventions to remediate the molecular and cellular deficits which accumulate with age and which underlie the ill-health of old age. Addressing ageing damage at this most fundamental level will provide an important opportunity to produce the effective, lasting treatments for the diseases and disabilities of ageing, which are required to improve quality of life in the elderly. The BGRF seeks to use the entire scope of modern biotechnology to attack the changes that take place in the course of aging, and to address not just the symptoms of age-related diseases but also the mechanisms of those diseases.

History

On Wednesday, May 14 the Biogerontology Research Foundation (BGRF) met the requirements of the Charity Commission for England and Wales and received a charitable status with the registration number 1124054.

Programs

Funding Production of a Brief for Further Research into Cancer-Resistant Mice Funding was provided to John Schloendorn for the preparation of a detailed plan to sequence and interpret sequence data for cancer resistant mice developed by Zheng Cui at Wake Forrest University. The aim is to use this plan, which includes estimated costs, to persuade donors to fund the research it describes.

Funding of an International Project in Cancer and Ageing Research: The Biogerontology Research Foundation in collaboration with the Institute for Biology of Aging funds research in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in telomerase-knockout mice. Funding was provided to the international research team team led by Zhenyu Ju, M.D. and Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Max-Planck-Partner-Group-Program on Stem Cell and Aging Research Associate Investigator, Sino-German Laboratory for Aging and Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China and K. Lenhard Rudolph, M.D., Chairman, Department of Molecular Medicine and Max-Planck-Research Group on Stem Cell Aging, Ulm, Germany. The team applied for a grant to conduct research in mice that could result in effective therapies in humans to ameliorate the pain and suffering caused by the ageing processes and cancer in the elderly.