Introducing the
Dog Aging Project

We welcome ALL dogs—young and old, mixed breed and purebred, healthy and those with chronic illness. If you and your best friend are interested in joining us, start the process by clicking the button below.

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Longer, healthier lives for all dogs... and their humans.

The goal of the Dog Aging Project is to understand how genes, lifestyle, and environment influence aging. We want to use that information to help dogs and people increase healthspan, the period of life spent free from disease. With help from you, we’ll gather information on thousands of participating dogs. We want to know what factors are associated with better health and longer lives. A subset of participating dogs will be selected to be part of a new clinical study to explore the potential of the drug rapamycin to improve healthspan.

We are building an unprecedented research platform that will enable us to follow the health and aging progression of each dog in our program.

The Dog Aging Project is committed to advancing our understanding of aging and to accelerating medical breakthroughs for dogs and humans. We will integrate our findings about dogs with other scientific and medical programs around the world to power research on health and aging in a way never before possible.

Meet Our Community Scientists