The Longevity Biotechnology Association is a non-profit organization representing global leaders in geroscience and gerotherapeutics: the development of new medicines and therapies to prevent and cure, rather than merely manage, the health conditions of late life. We are driven by a shared belief that every person deserves a life that is healthy, full and long.

Human life expectancy has nearly doubled since 1900 thanks to medicine's immense progress against infectious diseases. However, a consequence is that the diseases of aging have replaced infectious diseases as humanity's leading cause of death. The overwhelming majority of healthcare costs in the developed world are spent treating these diseases, such as cancer and Alzheimer's, which typically become chronic and debilitating conditions that can last for decades - and the developing world is rapidly approaching the same predicament.