'Cohorts for Healthy Ageing' (CoAGE) is a doctoral programme coordinated by the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) Mainz and the Center for Healthy Ageing (CHA). The aim of CoAGE is to…
The Gutenberg Healthy Ageing Study (GHA)
Some people remain healthy well into old age and are still able to manage their everyday lives without limitations. And yet, sooner or later most of us will…
The goal of SHARP is to strengthen cooperation between basic research groups at IMB and preclinical and clinical research groups at UMC in the field of ageing and longevity research. This programme…
The longest life ever lived
The longest-lived person in recorded history was Jeanne Calment, a French woman who lived to the extraordinary age of 122 years and 164 days. Born in 1875 and passing…