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10th Annual EngAGE Features Bill Nye the Science Guy and Grammy Award-Winning Singer Darlene Love

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

BOSTON, Sept. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hebrew SeniorLife, New England's largest nonprofit provider of senior health care and living communities, and the only senior care organization affiliated with Harvard Medical School, will host its 10th annual EngAGE event, Monday, Oct. 16 at the Museum of Science, Boston.

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  • The lineup includes: Bill Nye, renowned scientist, inventor, TV personality and educator, and long-time host of "Bill Nye the Science Guy"; and Darlene Love, Grammy Award-winning singer, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and actress.
  • EngAGE 2023 will be a mixed-media program with dynamic guest speakers and entertainers followed by dinner.
  • Proceeds from EngAGE 2023 will benefit Hebrew SeniorLife's health care, communities, research, and teaching that transforms the experience of aging.
  • "EngAGE provides an opportunity to talk about the latest research and advances from Marcus Institute researchers.

Solarea Bio Investigators Receive National Academy of Medicine Healthy Longevity 2022 Quickfire Challenge Award

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Thursday, September 29, 2022

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Solarea Bio, a clinical stage biotech company, has been selected as an awardee of the NAM Healthy Longevity 2022 QuickFire Challenge, launched by Johnson & Johnson Innovation together with the National Academy of Medicine, for work studying the mycobiome as a novel class of probiotics to target inflammation associated with aging, or 'inflammaging'.  

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  • CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Solarea Bio , a clinical stage biotech company, has been selected as an awardee of the NAM Healthy Longevity 2022 QuickFire Challenge, launched by Johnson & Johnson Innovation together with the National Academy of Medicine, for work studying the mycobiome as a novel class of probiotics to target inflammation associated with aging, or 'inflammaging'.
  • With inflammation as its core target, Solarea is developing a pipeline of products in addition to its existing lead clinical program for the dietary management of bone health.
  • Dr. Eric Schott, co-founder and Vice President of Translational Research and Operations at Solarea said, "Healthy aging as a target is advancing through the product development process with strong initial results.
  • The National Academy of Medicine's Healthy Longevity Initiative is designed to kick start innovation to support healthy longevity through a series of monetary awards and prizes.

Solarea Bio Teams up with Hebrew SeniorLife Investigators on a Newly Awarded U.S. National Academy of Medicine Catalyst Grant

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Thursday, November 4, 2021

Solarea Bio, along with Douglas P. Kiel, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Musculoskeletal Research Center, Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, and Shivani Sahni, Ph.D., Director, Nutrition Program, Marcus Institute, received the grant.

Key Points: 
  • Solarea Bio, along with Douglas P. Kiel, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Musculoskeletal Research Center, Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, and Shivani Sahni, Ph.D., Director, Nutrition Program, Marcus Institute, received the grant.
  • Hebrew SeniorLife, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, is a national senior services leader uniquely dedicated to rethinking, researching, and redefining the possibilities of aging.
  • Hebrew SeniorLife cares for more than 3,000 seniors a day across six campuses throughout Greater Boston.
  • For more information about Hebrew SeniorLife, visit https://www.hebrewseniorlife.org or follow us on our blog , Facebook , Instagram , Twitter , and LinkedIn .