RIYADH: Hevolution Foundation is giving $40 million in research grants, it announced on the final day of the Global Healthspan Summit.

This brings the foundation’s total contribution to $100 million. Other major funding includes $21 million for the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and $16 million to the American Federation of Aging Research, while $5 million will support 15 postdoctoral fellowships. The fellowships will advance the careers of early-stage scientists in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region in the fields of aging biology and geroscience.

Hevolution Foundation CEO Dr. Mehmood Khan said: “Helping fast-track and supporting impactful healthspan science programs is a founding principle for us. Through collaborative partnerships, we are catalyzing the incredible potential in the aging biology field and paving the way for new solutions to improve healthspan for all.”

Princess Haya Khaled Al-Saud, the foundation’s vice president of organizational strategy and development, said: “As a Saudi scientist, I am enormously proud of how the Global Healthspan Summit has brought such diversity of thinking together in the Kingdom. It has forged new channels and connections that will shape and catalyze the healthspan sector for the benefit of all.”

She added: “This is a launchpad for a stronger, more engaged, and action-oriented global collaboration that will encourage the world’s best minds to work together to solve the universal challenge of unhealthy aging.”