Swiss Campus for Healthy Longevity – Founded – Global Healthspan Extension Consortium

🎉 Historic Milestone: Swiss Campus for Healthy Longevity Founded on March 13th 2026!

We are thrilled to announce the official founding of the Swiss Campus for Healthy Longevity.

🌟 Our Vision

Make healthy longevity accessible for every person.

🎯 Our Mission

Build Europe’s leading healthy longevity ecosystem, connecting science, medicine, economics, the public sector and industry. Empower people to stay healthy and active longer, and make Switzerland the global benchmark for translating longevity science into real life.

🌍 What Makes Us Unique

Within our network of 15 world-leading university partners, we’re achieving together what none could achieve alone:

✅ The Most Comprehensive Map of Human Ageing Ever assembled — Access to 175,000+ longitudinally tracked individuals
✅ Collaborative Discovery at Scale — Breakthrough measurement tools and interventions to slow biological aging developed faster and more rigorously together
✅ Longevity Training Program — Nurturing the next generation of longevity science and implementation leaders
✅ Human-Centered Translation — Rapid path from scientific discovery and validation to clinical practice and public health impact

👥 Distinguished Founding Board

🔹 Prof. Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari – Director, Professor of Aging Medicine, University of Basel and Dept. Chair University of Basel Acute Aging Medicine Felix Platter
🔹 Prof. Primo Leo Schär – Vice President, University of Basel and Professor of Molecular Genetics University of Basel
🔹 Dr. Thomas Sprecher – Swiss foundation law expert, co-author “Swiss Foundation Code”
🔹 Anette Weber – Finance expert, Emmi AG Board Member, former CFO Novartis Japan
🔹 Dr. Serge Altmann – CEO, Ostschweizer Kinderspital, former CEO Balgrist University Hospital

📅 Next Major Milestone

April 21-22, 2026 — All 15 global University partners meet in Switzerland to define a collaborative global research agenda to advance healthy longevity together. The Swiss Campus serves as virtual headquarter of the Global Health Span Extension Consortium. We are looking forward to the Key Note Lectures by Prof. Tony Wyss-Coray and Prof. Steve Horvath, who co-lead the Swiss Healthy Longevity Campus together with Prof. Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari. This milestone event takes place under the visionary leadership of Prof. Andrea Schenker-Wicki, President of the University of Basel.

🙏 With Deep Gratitude

Special thanks to the University of Basel and the University of Basel Dept. of Aging Medicine Felix Platter for their strong support in building this transformative initiative.

P.S.: spot THE mistake in the background of the cover image 🙂