What’s more important to work on than life and death?

A free 18-hour crash course to transition your career into longevity.

Course

Why We Created This Course

Provide just enough overview

You don’t need to be a world-class biologist to make a difference. Longevity needs software engineers, data scientists, project coordinators, entrepreneurs, and more.

Spotlight high-impact interventions

Radical life extension won’t happen in the form of an anti-aging supplement. We created this course to direct attention and effort to where it matters.

We need all hands on deck

To have a chance of curing aging in our lifetime, we need to involve orders of magnitude more people and financial capital.

From zero biology to actionable paths to make significant contributions

 Syllabus

    • What the course cover

    • What it does NOT cover

    • Key takeaways

    • Central dogma

    • Biomolecules

    • Biochemistry

    • Metabolism

    • Homeostasis

    • Cells, tissues, organs

    • Immune system

    • What we don’t know

    • Why we age

    • What is aging

    • Information theory

    • Damage accumulation theory

    • Intra- and Inter-species variability

    • Immuneaging

    • Failed aging theories

    • Reproducibility crisis

    • Artisanal science

    • Bad incentives

    • Low vs. high impact

    • Academia

    • NGOs

    • Government

    • Pharma

    • Startups

    • Funding

    • Animal models

    • Organoid / ex-vivo models

    • Biomarkers

    • Clocks

    • Omics / network

    • Hypothesis vs. empirical

    • Assays

    • Protocols

    • Automation

    • Repeatability

    • Iteration time

    • Drug development process

    • Interventions overview

    • Metabolic

    • Pharmalogical

    • Reprogramming

    • Damage repair

    • Cell / Exosome theory

    • Senesence

    • Bioengineering overview

    • Gene editing

    • Gene delivery

    • Computational modeling

    • Machine learning

    • Full models

    • Computational Chemistry

    • Kinetic models

    • Minimal cell project

    • DNA compilers

    • synbio CAD tools

    • Hibernation

    • Cryonics

    • Uploading

    • Prosthetics

    • Synthetic organs

    • Lack of models / biomarkers

    • Lack of funding

    • Piecemeal science

    • Hype / herd mentality

    • Primitive tools

    • Personnel

    • Cultural aversion

    • Institutional misalignment

    • Lack of career / education paths

    • Lack of public databases / siloing

    • Lack of data protocol standards

    • Lack of regulatory path

Longevity Zero to One in Zuzalu

May 6-9, 2023

Zuzalu, Montenegro

This course was recorded as an in-person version of Longevity Zero to One taught by top longevity experts. It took place at Zuzalu - the pop-up city and longevity network state experiment.