WASHINGTON, October 22, 2018 – FasterCures, the Milken Institute center whose mission is to save lives by speeding medical breakthroughs to patients, is announcing new initiatives to engage the private sector, strengthen global partnerships...

Alzheimer’s disease is increasingly in the spotlight after a number of high-profile clinical trial failures—an alarming trend as an estimated 5.5 million adult Americans live with this disease, which disproportionally affects the aged...

Thiel Fellow, Laura Deming, is on a mission to extend human healthspan. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30 alum and was one of the stars of The Age of Aging, a documentary by National Geographic. In an interview with the Milken Institute Center...

Renowned neurosurgeon, Keith Black, has pioneered advances in our understanding and treatment of brain cancers and complex neurological conditions. Black is also a research scientist studying targeted drug delivery, cancer stem cells, and...

Director of the Longevity Genes Project at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Nir Barzilai has discovered several longevity genes in humans that appear to protect centenarians against major age-related diseases. Barzilai is also co...

“What outcomes matter to patients?” This question is asked at nearly every meeting in biomedical R&D and health care. As FasterCures has documented over the years, there is a big change afoot to place patients in the center of medical...

WASHINGTON, January 23, 2018 – Tanisha Carino, Ph.D., the respected senior executive with more than two decades of experience in academia, government, and the private sector, is joining the Milken Institute as executive director of...

Let’s envision a model for healthy, functional longevity based on evaluating and improving the body’s bioresilience. Bioresilience is the body’s capacity to respond to stress. One way to visualize bioresilience is to imagine a WeebleTM, the...

WASHINGTON, DC — FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, commends the U.S. Senate on today’s strong, bipartisan support of the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 34), which passed the Senate on a 94-5 vote, matching the U.S. House of...

WASHINGTON –Leaders across medical research – from patients to policymakers, from academia to advocates, from philanthropists to federal regulators and from investors to industry – will gather at the Grant Hyatt New York, Nov. 13 to 15, for...