Elevian’s Launch to Develop Medicines for Longevity and Age-Related Disorders

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• Elevian generated a seed funding of $5.5M from investors including WTI, Stanford StartX, Longevity Fund, Kizoo Ventures, Thynk Capital among others
• Its founders focus on regenerative effects of young blood and identified a specific circulating factor GDF11, by experimenting circulatory systems of young and old mice and observed regeneration of many tissues and organs in the old mice after 30 days
• GDF11 (a growth differentiation factor 11) reduces age-related cardiac hypertrophy, accelerates skeletal muscle repair, improves exercise capacity and brain function. Elevian will focus on is CAD, Alzheimer disease, T2D and sarcopenia, an age-related muscle dysfunction disorder

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