OpenCures is a hybrid for-benefit enterprise that partners with a 501c(3) charity, OpenCures Access, to create a multipronged strategy to accelerate the development of health technologies through collaboration.
Together with our partners, including many individuals as well as longevity clinics, laboratories, biohacker communities, AI companies, scientists and research organizations we create an integrated network of services to connect the need of the customer for health technologies to their development in order to minimize time to their availability.
By innovating with a focus on the development cycle as a whole, we significantly reduce the time to develop and implement new interventions.
Our collaborative approach ensures the generation of rich, impactful data sets that accelerates the science of longevity by orders of magnitude
Participants are empowered to take an active role in their health journey, contributing to and benefiting from the research in which they participate.
We all want good health for ourselves and our loved ones for as long as possible, and there are many who would like health to be restored. To help us answer that need, we all rely on the current health technology development paradigm to produce the goods and services we need to maintain and restore our health, when we need them, and we all eventually will.
In addition to the personal interest in health technologies being developed as fast as they can, there is the massive unmet need of more than one-hundred-thousand people who die every day from age-related causes, suffering tremendously on the way.
And yet, despite the incredible demand created by the suffering of millions, the current paradigm of health technology development is lengthy and expensive. How can we connect this need to the development of the solutions necessary to answer it?
Our answer is through empowering the individuals who want these solutions with the means to see they are developed as quickly as possible. Together we can work to solve our mutual problems and minimize the time to their solution.
The answer to minimizing time to the availability of interventions is by examining how research iteratively leads to better-and-better products and services for the longevity industry, and then find ways to "warp speed" their development by rewarding collaboration to produce the data needed. Many hands make short work.
Together we offer a new, community-driven approach to revolutionize longevity science.
Imagine a world where proactive individuals engage in continuous decentralized trials just by getting their care. Where participants are not merely subjects but are actively engaged and benefit from their contributions to the science that extends their healthspan and lifespan.
They are the primary beneficiaries of the long-term outcomes, creating a vested interest in the success of new interventions. This immersive experience places participants in direct contact with researchers, fostering a unique synergy that accelerates discovery and application of new knowledge.
Imagine a system where this cycle progresses seamlessly, with minimal friction, accelerating the pace at which new interventions are developed and introduced.
Plasmalogen is an essential phospholipid building block for cell membranes and required for healthy neuronal function. Plasmalogens are largely produced by the liver and muscle and like many beneficial things, it declines with age. Plasmalogen levels are a better predictor of dementia and mortality risk than APOE status as revealed in a study using the community-based approach in the lab of David Bennett of Rush University.
Unbiased data from this community-oriented longitudinal study led to the development of an orally bioavailable plasmalogen supplement which is undergoing further human trials to explore its protective effects against multiple age-related conditions.
We are actively looking for individuals or entities that want to contribute and help to build our vision of the optimized intervention development cycle.
Are you a research organization, health professional, laboratory, software or product engineer, volunteer or any other individual or organization moving in this space? Don't hesitate to reach out!