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Introducing our 2024 Early Career Postdoctoral Fellows

Introducing our 2024/25 Proleptic Postdoctoral Fellows

2025 Annual Symposium

On 29th April 2025 we hosted our Annual Symposium at the Wellcome Collection in London. We opened with lunch and an opportunity to peruse posters. And there was “merch” available in goody bags to celebrate the launch of

2025 Academy Excellence Award winners announced

Funding for the future of ageing well: introducing the Vivensa Foundation

We have changed both our working name and our legal name to the Vivensa Foundation to better reflect our work as a funder and impact-intentional investor.  This is not just a change of name but

Reflections on a charity’s evolution

After 37 years as The Dunhill Medical Trust, we have changed our name and will now be known as the Vivensa Foundation. Having refined our focus and made substantial changes to the way we go

fEC! Can we talk about overheads?

How many times have you heard that “charities don’t pay overheads”? And the version of this that goes …”My university won’t let me apply for charity research funding” ? Let’s look at the data The

Early Career Researcher events and Annual Symposium

We thought we would take this opportunity to provide a summary of our recent Early Career Researcher events, as well as give some more details about our upcoming Annual Symposium. Our Early Career Researcher event

The Innovation Fellowships in Healthy Ageing: bridging the gap between academia and industry

Many researchers in academia find themselves asking: How can my work go beyond contributing to the body of knowledge? How can I make an impact now? This is especially true in ageing-related research, where the